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V.I. Code tit. 23, § 1073 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 23 - Internal Security and Public Order|Chapter 10 - Virgin Islands Territorial Emergency Management Act|Subchapter IV - 911 Emergency System|§ 1073. Emergency services included in system

 (a) Every 911 system shall be capable of transmitting requests for ambulance, firefighting, law enforcement, medical or emergency services to a public safety agency or other government agencies that provide the requested service at the place where the call originates. A 911 system may also provide for transmittal of requests for other emergency services, such as poison control, suicide prevention, and civil defense. Conferencing capability with counseling, aid to handicapped, and other services as deemed necessary for emergency response determination may be provided by the 911 system. (b) Any unit of any agency of the Territory which provides ambulance, firefighting, law enforcement, medical or emergency services to an area shall be part of the 911 system or systems in the area it serves. A 911 PSAP may transmit emergency response requests to private safety entities. Automatic intrusion alarms and other automatic altering devices shall not be installed so as to cause the number 911 to be dialed in order to access directly emergency services; however, this provision shall not apply to a 911 system if the heads of all of the public safety agencies participating in the 911 system agree otherwise.
V.I. Code tit. 23, § 1074 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 23 - Internal Security and Public Order|Chapter 10 - Virgin Islands Territorial Emergency Management Act|Subchapter IV - 911 Emergency System|§ 1074. Pay telephone; dialing without a coin

 Each telephone common carrier shall convert every pay station telephone within the area served by a 911 system to permit a caller to dial 911, and to reach an operator by dialing “0”, without first inserting a coin or paying any other charge.
V.I. Code tit. 23, § 1075 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 23 - Internal Security and Public Order|Chapter 10 - Virgin Islands Territorial Emergency Management Act|Subchapter IV - 911 Emergency System|§ 1075. Development of technical standards

 VITEMA shall promulgate rules and regulations as are just and reasonable and in the public interest to implement the provisions of this chapter.
V.I. Code tit. 23, § 1076 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 23 - Internal Security and Public Order|Chapter 10 - Virgin Islands Territorial Emergency Management Act|Subchapter IV - 911 Emergency System|§ 1076. Preparation of individual system plans by public agencies; implementation

 Each local public agency shall designate a coordinator who shall serve as the point of contact in working with VITEMA. (a) Public agencies and public safety agencies shall prepare tentative 911 system plans which meet the technical and operational standards established by VITEMA. Upon request by public agencies, VITEMA shall assist public agencies in developing effective 911 system plans by providing guidance as to plan content, technical assistance, and by providing advice in formulating concepts, methods and procedures to improve 911 system designs, their implementation and their operation. VITEMA shall apply for financial aid, including federal funding assistance, to develop plans for implementation and operation of their 911 systems. (b) Plans filed pursuant to subsection (b) of this section shall conform to minimum standards established pursuant to this chapter.
V.I. Code tit. 23, § 1077 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 23 - Internal Security and Public Order|Chapter 10 - Virgin Islands Territorial Emergency Management Act|Subchapter IV - 911 Emergency System|§ 1077. Enforcement of compliance by judicial proceedings

 The Virgin Islands Department of Justice may, at the request of VITEMA, or on its own initiative, commence judicial proceedings in a court of competent jurisdiction against any public agency or the common carrier providing telephone service to enforce the provisions of this chapter.
V.I. Code tit. 23, § 1078 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 23 - Internal Security and Public Order|Chapter 10 - Virgin Islands Territorial Emergency Management Act|Subchapter IV - 911 Emergency System|§ 1078. Telephone company exempt from liability for providing ANI or ALI information

 (a) A common carrier serving a public agency or group of agencies which has implemented a 911 system with automatic number identification and/or automatic location identification features shall be required to provide such public agency or group of public agencies access to the telephone numbers of subscribers and the addresses associated with the numbers needed to implement these features. (b) A common carrier shall not be liable to any person who uses the emergency number system created under this chapter for release of the information specified in subsection (a) of this section to a public agency or group of public agencies as required by subsection (a). (c) A common carrier, its employees, agents, contractors, and affiliates shall not be held liable for any acts in the operation, administration, or maintenance of a 911 service, unless such acts are found to be of willful intent as defined in title 1, section 41, of the Virgin Islands Code.
V.I. Code tit. 23, § 1079 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 23 - Internal Security and Public Order|Chapter 10 - Virgin Islands Territorial Emergency Management Act|Subchapter IV - 911 Emergency System|§ 1079. Address label on pay telephone

 Each common carrier providing 911 services to a public agency or group of agencies shall prominently display, on every pay station telephone within its 911 service area, the address or location of the telephone.
V.I. Code tit. 23, § 1080 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 23 - Internal Security and Public Order|Chapter 10 - Virgin Islands Territorial Emergency Management Act|Subchapter IV - 911 Emergency System|§ 1080. Emergency call box system

 (a) VITEMA shall provide for the installment, operation, and maintenance of a system of emergency telephone call boxes along roads and highways in the Territory. (b) The system shall: (1) be designed to enable users to request emergency and nonemergency response services; (2) include: (A) wired or wireless telecommunications services; and (B) one or more motorist assistance answering centers; and (3) be capable of performing compatible Intelligent Transportation System (ITS) functions. (c) The location of the emergency call boxes shall be determined by VITEMA, with the assistance of the Virgin Islands Police Department and the Department of Public Works, in accordance with the design specifications of the system.
V.I. Code tit. 23, § 1302 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 23 - Internal Security and Public Order|Chapter 17 - Private Security Guards and Investigative Agencies|Subchapter I - Licensing of Private Security Guards and Investigative Agencies|§ 1302. Powers and duties of Commissioner

 (a) The Commissioner is hereby vested with power, jurisdiction and authority to issue and revoke licenses to private investigative agencies, watchman, guard or patrol agencies, private detectives and watchman, guard or patrol contractors therefor, to deny such applicants a license or to suspend a license for reasonable period, or to assess a civil penalty against the licensee in an amount not to exceed $100. The Commissioner shall have the power, jurisdiction and authority to promulgate reasonable rules and regulations in the exercise of his powers hereunder, for the conduct of the business of private investigative agencies, private detective, and watchman, guard or patrol contractors, watchman, guard or patrol agencies, not in conflict with the constitution and laws of the United States or of the Virgin Islands. (b) No person, firm, company, partnership or corporation shall furnish private investigations, watchman, guard or patrolman services, nor shall he advertise, solicit nor in any way promise nor inform anyone that he will perform such services without receiving from the Commissioner a license as provided herein.
V.I. Code tit. 23, § 1303 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 23 - Internal Security and Public Order|Chapter 17 - Private Security Guards and Investigative Agencies|Subchapter I - Licensing of Private Security Guards and Investigative Agencies|§ 1303. Application for license

 Each person, partner, or in the case of corporation each corporate officer, shall file with the Commissioner a written application accompanied by a fee of $25 to cover costs. The fee shall not be rebatable. The written application shall be in accordance with the following provisions: (1) If the applicant is an individual the application shall be signed and verified by the individual; (2) If the applicant is a firm or partnership a separate application shall be signed and verified by each individual composing or intending to compose, in the immediate future, such firm or partnership; (3) If the applicant is a corporation a separate application shall be signed and verified by each officer (not including assistant secretaries or assistant treasurers) thereof; (4) The application shall contain the following information concerning the individual signing the same: (a) Full name and title of position held with applicant; (b) Age, date and place of birth; (c) The present residence address and the residence within the five years immediately preceding the submission of the application; (d) Occupations held presently and within the five years immediately preceding the submission of the application; (e) A statement that he is a citizen of the United States and over the age of twenty-one years; (f) The address of the principal place in which the business is to be conducted; (g) The address of all branch offices within the Virgin Islands; (h) The name under which the business is to be conducted; (i) The names and addresses of all partners or officers and directors, as the case may be; (j) A full set of fingerprints and a photograph of the signatory taken within two years immediately preceding the submission of the application; (k) A statement of the experience of the signatory which he believes would qualify him, his firm or his corporation for a license under this chapter; (l) A statement of any or all arrests of the signatory; (m) Such further facts as may be required by the Commissioner to show that the person signing the application is competent, honest, truthful, trustworthy, of good character and bears a reputation for fair dealing.
V.I. Code tit. 23, § 1304 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 23 - Internal Security and Public Order|Chapter 17 - Private Security Guards and Investigative Agencies|Subchapter I - Licensing of Private Security Guards and Investigative Agencies|§ 1304. License requirements

 Every corporation applying for a license hereunder must be organized or authorized to do business, under the laws of the Virgin Islands. All applicants for licenses under this chapter who are natural persons, and all officers of corporate applicants must be citizens or permanent residents of the United States, and at least the president if he actively directs the business of the corporation or in the event the president does not actively direct the corporative business then the officer who does actively direct the business of the corporation shall have had at least three years experience. Provided, however, where the applicant is the purchaser of an existing agency, the experience requirement may, in the discretion of the Commissioner, be reduced to one year.
V.I. Code tit. 23, § 1305 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 23 - Internal Security and Public Order|Chapter 17 - Private Security Guards and Investigative Agencies|Subchapter I - Licensing of Private Security Guards and Investigative Agencies|§ 1305. Notification to Commissioner of new partner or corporate officer

 After filing the application, unless the Commissioner declines to issue the license, or revokes it after issuance, all private investigative agencies, and all watchman, guard or patrolman agencies, shall notify the Commissioner within ten days of the removal, replacement or addition of any or all partners and officers of the corporate agency, and upon receipt of application forms from the Commissioner, shall cause the same to be completed by the new partner or officer and the same shall be filed with the Commissioner and an application fee of $25 paid. The agency's good standing under this chapter shall be contingent upon the Commissioner's approval of any such new partner or officer.
V.I. Code tit. 23, § 1306 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 23 - Internal Security and Public Order|Chapter 17 - Private Security Guards and Investigative Agencies|Subchapter I - Licensing of Private Security Guards and Investigative Agencies|§ 1306. License fees

 (a) The license fees applicable to the licenses required under the provisions of this subchapter shall be established by regulations promulgated from time to time in accordance with law by the Police Commissioner, with the approval of the Governor. Such license fees shall not exceed the reasonable administrative costs incurred by the U.S. Virgin Islands Police Department (V.I.P.D.) in implementing the licensing provisions of this subchapter. (b) License fees shall be paid to the Commissioner at the time the application is made. If the Commissioner declines to issue a license the fee shall be returned to the applicant. Once a license is issued, if it is subsequently revoked, the license fee shall not be returned to the licensee. The holder of all types of licenses may furnish only the services described under the definition for that type of license contained in section 1301 of this chapter.
V.I. Code tit. 23, § 1307 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 23 - Internal Security and Public Order|Chapter 17 - Private Security Guards and Investigative Agencies|Subchapter I - Licensing of Private Security Guards and Investigative Agencies|§ 1307. Investigation of applicants by Commissioner

 The Police Commissioner shall make such individual investigation of applicants for licenses under this chapter as he may deem necessary.
V.I. Code tit. 23, § 1308 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 23 - Internal Security and Public Order|Chapter 17 - Private Security Guards and Investigative Agencies|Subchapter I - Licensing of Private Security Guards and Investigative Agencies|§ 1308. Issuance of license

 (a) When the Commissioner shall be satisfied of the good character, competency and integrity of the applicant, or if the applicant be a firm or partnership, the individual members thereof, or, if the applicant be a corporation, the officers thereof, he shall inform the applicant of his findings and that license shall be issued upon the applicant's posting a licensee's bond as provided in section 1309 of this chapter. Upon the posting of such licensee's bond, the Commissioner shall issue and deliver to such applicant a license to conduct the type of business applied for at the premises stated in the application. Such license shall not be transferable and shall be revoked or cancelled only by the Commissioner. (b) Grounds for denial of license shall be: (1) Conviction of a felony in the Virgin Islands or any other jurisdiction where civil rights have not been restored. (2) Conviction of a crime involving moral turpitude or dishonest dealings. (3) Lack of United States citizenship, permanent resident status or has not reached his 21st birthday. (4) Failure to meet the experience qualifications required under the provisions of this chapter; (5) Failure to meet character qualifications; (6) Falsifying application for license; (7) Conducting business without benefit of proper license; (8) Failure to meet any qualification or requirement prescribed in this chapter, or for any cause which, if the applicant had already been licensed hereunder, would be grounds for revocation of such license.
V.I. Code tit. 23, § 1309 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 23 - Internal Security and Public Order|Chapter 17 - Private Security Guards and Investigative Agencies|Subchapter I - Licensing of Private Security Guards and Investigative Agencies|§ 1309. Licensee's bond

 (a) The licensee's bond referred to in section 1308 of this chapter shall be surety bond executed by the applicant and two or more sureties, or by a surety company authorized to do business in the Virgin Islands, payable to the Government of the Virgin Islands in the sum of $50,000 conditioned upon the faithful and honest conduct and performance by the licensee of the business so licensed. If any person shall be aggrieved by the misconduct of any such licensed agency, such person may maintain an action in his own name upon the bond of said agency, in any court having jurisdiction of the amount claimed. Any remedies given by this section shall not be exclusive of any other remedy which would otherwise exist. (b) With respect to private investigating agencies, private investigators and private detectives only, the Police Commissioner, with the approval of the Governor, may waive the bonding requirement of subsection (a) hereof, in whole or in part, if he shall find that: (1) It is an unreasonable financial hardship for such licensee to obtain a bond as required by subsection (a) hereof for reasons other than those specified under the provisions of section 1308(b) of this title; and (2) Such licensee provides in the alternative such commercial assurance of faithful performance, including but not limited to liability insurance, as may be required under rules and regulations promulgated by the Police Commissioner in accordance with the provisions of Title 3, chapter 35 of the Code; and (3) Such licensee has provided such other assurance of faithful performance in the conduct of the business so licensed, in addition to that required pursuant to subsection (2) hereof, as the Police Commissioner may require with the approval of the Governor.
V.I. Code tit. 23, § 1310 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 23 - Internal Security and Public Order|Chapter 17 - Private Security Guards and Investigative Agencies|Subchapter I - Licensing of Private Security Guards and Investigative Agencies|§ 1310. Supervision of agencies

 Each agency must be under the direct supervision of the owner or corporate officer upon whose qualifications the agency is licensed.
V.I. Code tit. 23, § 1312 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 23 - Internal Security and Public Order|Chapter 17 - Private Security Guards and Investigative Agencies|Subchapter I - Licensing of Private Security Guards and Investigative Agencies|§ 1312. Inapplicability of this chapter

 (a) This part shall not apply: (1) To any detective or officer belonging to the agencies of the United States or the Government of the Virgin Islands, while any such officer is engaged in the performance of his official duties. (2) To special police officers appointed by the Commissioners or members of the Police Auxiliary while any such officer is engaged in the performance of his official duties. (3) To insurance investigators or adjusters licensed as such. (4) To any person employed as special agent, detective or private investigator exclusively in connection with the affairs of that employer. (5) To any person, firm, company, partnership, corporation, or any bureau or agency whose business is exclusively the furnishing of information as to the business and financial standing, and credit responsibility of persons, firms, or corporations, or as to the financial responsibility of applicants for insurance, indemnity bonds or commercial credit. (6) To any corporation duly authorized by the Government of the Virgin Islands to operate a central burglar or fire alarm protection business. (7) Attorneys or counsellors at law in the regular practice of their profession, but such exemption shall not inure to the benefit of any employee or representative of such attorney or counsellor at law who is not employed solely, exclusively and regularly by such attorney or counsellor at law. (b) No person, firm, company, partnership, corporation or any bureau or agency, exempted hereunder from the application of this chapter, shall perform any manner of private investigator or watchman, guard or patrol agency service for any person, firm, company, partnership, corporation, bureau or agency whether for fee, hire, reward, other compensation, remuneration, or consideration or as an accommodation without fee, reward or remuneration or by a reciprocal arrangement whereby such services are exchanged on request of parties thereto. The commission of a single act prohibited by this section shall constitute a violation thereof.
V.I. Code tit. 23, § 1313 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 23 - Internal Security and Public Order|Chapter 17 - Private Security Guards and Investigative Agencies|Subchapter I - Licensing of Private Security Guards and Investigative Agencies|§ 1313. Renewal of license

 A license granted under the provisions of this chapter may be renewed by the Commissioner upon application therefor by the holder thereof, in such form as the Commissioner may prescribe, and payment of fee and filing of surety bond in amount equivalent to that specified in section 1309 of this chapter as pertaining to original licenses. The application shall be filed within 30 days before the expiration date of the license unless the application is accompanied by a late filing fee of $100. In no event will renewal be granted more than six months after the date of expiration of a license.
V.I. Code tit. 23, § 1314 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 23 - Internal Security and Public Order|Chapter 17 - Private Security Guards and Investigative Agencies|Subchapter I - Licensing of Private Security Guards and Investigative Agencies|§ 1314. Change of location of licensee

 In the event the licensee desires to change the location of any place of business indicated in his application on file with the Commissioner, he shall notify the Commissioner. The Commissioner shall send to him suitable forms designed by the Commissioner, the purpose of which shall be to record in the office of the Commissioner the fact that there has been a change by way of substitution of the licensee's place or places of business. Upon completion of such form the licensee shall return it to the Commissioner, together with a fee of $10 for each changed location and a certificate from his surety on the bond mentioned in section 1309 of this chapter, to the effect that said bond covers the licensee's business at the changed location. The Commissioner shall thereupon send to the licensee a certificate of registration of each changed location. Said certificate shall be in a form designed by the Commissioner, but it shall at least specify the name under which the licensee operates, its license number and the address of the location to which the certificate of registration applies.