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V.I. Code tit. 14, § 835 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 14 - Crimes|Chapter 41 - Fraud and False Statements|§ 835. Drawing and delivering worthless checks

 (a) Whoever makes, draws, utters, or delivers any check, draft or order for the payment of money— (1) to the value of $100 or more upon any bank or other depository knowing at the time of such making, drawing, uttering or delivering that the maker or drawer has not sufficient funds in, or credit with, such bank or other depositary for the payment of such check, draft or order, in full, upon its presentation, shall be fined not more than $1,000 or imprisoned not more than 5 years, or both; (2) to the value of less than $100, upon any bank or other depository knowing at the time of such making, drawing, uttering or delivering that the maker or drawer has not sufficient funds in, or credit with, such bank or other depository for the payment of such check, draft or order, in full, upon its presentation, shall be fined not more than $200 or imprisoned not more than 1 year, or both. (b) The making, drawing, uttering or delivering of a check, draft or order, payment of which is refused by the drawee, shall be prima facie evidence of the maker's or drawer's knowledge of insufficient funds in, or credit with, such bank or other depository, if such maker or drawer has not paid the drawee thereof the amount due thereon, together with all costs and protest fees, within 10 days after receiving notice that such check, draft or order has not been paid by the drawee. (c) “Credit”, as used in this section, means an arrangement or understanding with the bank or depository for the payment of such check, draft or order.
V.I. Code tit. 14, § 836 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 14 - Crimes|Chapter 41 - Fraud and False Statements|§ 836. Production of fraudulent heir

 Whoever fraudulently produces an infant, falsely pretending it to have been born of any parent whose child would be entitled to inherit, with intent to intercept the inheritance, shall be imprisoned not more than 10 years.
V.I. Code tit. 14, § 837 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 14 - Crimes|Chapter 41 - Fraud and False Statements|§ 837. Reselling sold property

 Whoever, after once selling, bartering, or disposing of any property, real or personal, or any interest therein, or after executing any bond or agreement for the sale of such property, again willfully and with intent to defraud previous or subsequent purchasers— (1) sells, barters, or disposes of the same property, or any part thereof, or interest therein; or (2) executes any bond or agreement to sell, barter, or dispose of the same property, or any part thereof, or interest therein— to any other person for a valuable consideration, shall be fined not more than $200 or imprisoned not more than 1 year, or both.
V.I. Code tit. 14, § 838 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 14 - Crimes|Chapter 41 - Fraud and False Statements|§ 838. Misrepresentation of competency by a married person

 Whoever, being married, falsely and fraudulently represents himself or herself as competent to sell or mortgage any real estate to the validity of which sale or mortgage the assent or concurrence of his wife or her husband is necessary, and under such representation, willfully conveys or mortgages the same, shall be imprisoned not more than 10 years.
V.I. Code tit. 14, § 839 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 14 - Crimes|Chapter 41 - Fraud and False Statements|§ 839. Defrauding hotels, restaurants.

 (a) Any person who shall put up at any hotel, motel, inn, restaurant or cafe as a guest and shall procure any food, entertainment or accommodation without paying therefor, except when credit is given therefor by express agreement, with intent to defraud such keeper thereof out of the pay for the same, or who, with intent to defraud such keeper out of the pay therefor, shall obtain credit at any hotel, motel, inn, restaurant or cafe for such food, entertainment or accommodation, by means of any false show of baggage or effects brought thereto, shall be fined not more than $200 or imprisoned not more than 6 months, or both. No conviction shall be made under the provisions of this section unless complaint is made within 60 days of the time of the violation hereof. (b) Obtaining such food, lodging or accommodations by false pretenses, or by false or fictitious show of baggage or other property, or refusal or neglect to pay therefor on demand, or payment thereof with check, draft or other upon a bank or other depository on which payment was refused, or absconding without paying or offering to pay therefor, or surreptitiously removing or attempting to remove baggage shall be prima facie evidence of such intent to defraud mentioned in subdivision (a).
V.I. Code tit. 14, § 840 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 14 - Crimes|Chapter 41 - Fraud and False Statements|§ 840. Defrauding pledgees

 Whoever, after pledging as security any real or personal property whatever, for a loan or other security, during the existence of said pledge, with the intent to defraud the pledgee, his representatives or assigns, transfers, sells, takes, drives or carries away or otherwise disposes of or permits the transferring, selling, taking or carrying away or other disposal of said property, or any part thereof, without the written consent of the pledgee, shall— (1) if the property pledged was less than $100 in value, be fined not more than $200 or imprisoned not more than 1 year, or both; or (2) if the property pledged was $100 or more in value, be imprisoned not more than 10 years.
V.I. Code tit. 14, § 841 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 14 - Crimes|Chapter 41 - Fraud and False Statements|§ 841. Fraudulent burning of insured property

 Whoever willfully burns or in any other manner injures or destroys any property which is at the time insured against loss or damage by fire, or by any other casualty, with intent to defraud or prejudice the insurer, whether the same be the property or in possession of such person, or of any other, shall be fined not more than $1,000 or imprisoned not more than 10 years, or both.
V.I. Code tit. 14, § 842 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 14 - Crimes|Chapter 41 - Fraud and False Statements|§ 842. Fraudulent insurance claims

 Whoever— (1) presents any false or fraudulent claim, or any proof in support of such claim, upon any contract of insurance for the payment of any loss; or (2) prepares, makes, or subscribes any account, certificate of survey, affidavit, or proof of loss, or other book, paper, or writing, with intent to present or use the same, or to allow it to be presented or used in support of any such claim— shall be fined not more than $1,000 or imprisoned not more than 5 years, or both.
V.I. Code tit. 14, § 843 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 14 - Crimes|Chapter 41 - Fraud and False Statements|§ 843. Fraudulent claims upon the government

 Whoever— (1) makes or presents any claim upon or against the government of the Virgin Islands or any officer, department, board, commission, or other agency thereof, knowing such claim to be false, fictitious or fraudulent; (2) knowingly and willfully falsifies, conceals, or covers up by any trick, scheme, or device a material fact; (3) makes any false or fraudulent statements or representations; or (4) makes or uses any false bill, receipt, voucher, roll, account, claim, certificate, affidavit or deposition knowing the same to contain any fraudulent or fictitious statement or entry— in any matter within the jurisdiction of any officer, department, board, commission, or other agency of the government of the Virgin Islands, shall be fined not more than $500 or imprisoned not more than two years, or both.
V.I. Code tit. 14, § 844 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 14 - Crimes|Chapter 41 - Fraud and False Statements|§ 844. Evidence of false pretenses

 Upon a trial for having, by any false pretense, obtained— (1) the signature of any person to any written instrument; or (2) from any person any valuable thing— no evidence shall be admitted of a false pretense expressed orally and unaccompanied by a false token or writing; unless such pretense, or some note or memorandum thereof, is in writing, and either subscribed by or in the handwriting of the defendant. This section does not apply to an action for falsely representing or personating another, and in such assumed character receiving any such valuable thing.
V.I. Code tit. 14, § 845 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 14 - Crimes|Chapter 41 - Fraud and False Statements|§ 845. Failure to supply full and truthful statement

 Whoever, being a seller, knowingly and willfully makes or delivers or causes to be made or delivered statements as provided for in sections 6-104 and 6-108 of Title 11A which do not include the names of all his creditors with the correct amount due and to become due to each of them, or which contain any false or untrue statement, shall be fined not more than $1,000 or imprisoned not more than 5 years, or both.
V.I. Code tit. 14, § 846 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 14 - Crimes|Chapter 41 - Fraud and False Statements|§ 846. Failure of purchaser to demand statement or to distribute proceeds or to notify creditors

 Whoever, being a purchaser, knowingly and willfully fails or neglects to demand from the seller the statement provided for in section 6-104 of Title 11A; or knowingly or willfully fails or neglects to perform any of the acts required of him by sections 6-105 and 6-106 of Title 11A, shall be fined not more than $1,000 or imprisoned not more than 5 years, or both.
V.I. Code tit. 14, § 847 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 14 - Crimes|Chapter 41 - Fraud and False Statements|§ 847. Issue of receipt for goods not received

 A warehouseman, or any officer, agent, or servant of a warehouseman, who issues or aids in issuing a receipt knowing that the goods for which such receipt is issued have not been actually received by such warehouseman, or are not under his actual control at the time of issuing such receipt, shall be fined not more than $5,000 or imprisoned not more than 5 years, or both.
V.I. Code tit. 14, § 848 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 14 - Crimes|Chapter 41 - Fraud and False Statements|§ 848. Issue of receipt containing false statement

 A warehouseman, or any officer, agent or servant of a warehouseman, who fraudulently issues or aids in fraudulently issuing a receipt for goods knowing that it contains any false statement shall be fined not more than $1,000 or imprisoned not more than 1 year, or both.
V.I. Code tit. 14, § 849 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 14 - Crimes|Chapter 41 - Fraud and False Statements|§ 849. Issue of duplicate receipts not so marked

 A warehouseman, or any officer, agent, or servant of a warehouseman, who issues or aids in issuing a duplicate or additional negotiable receipt for goods knowing that a former negotiable receipt for the same goods or any part of them is outstanding and uncancelled, without plainly placing upon the face thereof the word “Duplicate” except in the case of a lost or destroyed receipt after proceedings as provided for in section 7-402 of Title 11A, shall be fined not more than $5,000 or imprisoned not more than 5 years, or both.
V.I. Code tit. 14, § 850 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 14 - Crimes|Chapter 41 - Fraud and False Statements|§ 850. Issue for warehouseman's goods of receipts which do not state that fact

 Where there are deposited with or held by a warehouseman goods of which he is owner, either solely or jointly or in common with others, such warehouseman, or any of his officers, agents, or servants who, knowing this ownership, issues or aids in issuing a negotiable receipt for such goods which does not state such ownership, shall be fined not more than $1,000 or imprisoned not more than 1 year, or both.
V.I. Code tit. 14, § 851 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 14 - Crimes|Chapter 41 - Fraud and False Statements|§ 851. Delivery of goods without obtaining negotiable receipt

 A warehouseman, or any officer, agent, or servant of a warehouseman who delivers goods out of the possession of such warehouseman, knowing that a negotiable receipt the negotiation of which would transfer the right to the possession of such goods is outstanding and uncancelled, without obtaining the possession of such receipt at or before the time of such delivery, shall, except in the cases provided for in sections 7-402 and 7-403 of Title 11A, be fined not more than $1,000 or imprisoned not more than 1 year, or both.
V.I. Code tit. 14, § 852 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 14 - Crimes|Chapter 41 - Fraud and False Statements|§ 852. Negotiation of receipt for mortgaged goods

 Any person who deposits goods to which he has not title, or upon which there is a lien or mortgage, and who takes for such goods a negotiable receipt which he afterwards negotiates for value with intent to deceive and without disclosing his want of title or the existence of the lien or mortgage shall be fined not more than $1,000 or imprisoned not more than 1 year, or both.
V.I. Code tit. 14, § 881 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 14 - Crimes|Chapter 43 - Health and Safety|§ 881. Negligently allowing boiler to burst

 Whoever having charge of any steam boiler or steam engine, or other apparatus for generating or employing steam, willfully or from neglect, creates or allows to be created, such an undue quantity of steam as to burst or break the boiler, engine, or apparatus, or to cause any other accident whereby— (1) the death of a human being is produced; or (2) human life is endangered— shall be fined not more than $2,000 or imprisoned not more than 5 years, or both.
V.I. Code tit. 14, § 882 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 14 - Crimes|Chapter 43 - Health and Safety|§ 882. Abandoning boiler under pressure

 Whoever willfully abandons a steam boiler while said boiler is under pressure of steam shall be fined not more than $1,000 or imprisoned not more than 1 year, or both.
V.I. Code tit. 14, § 883 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 14 - Crimes|Chapter 43 - Health and Safety|§ 883. Disobeying orders of fireman, policeman, etc.

 Whoever disobeys the lawful orders of any police officer or fireman, or offers any resistance to or interferes with the lawful efforts of any fireman or company of firemen to extinguish a fire, or engages in any disorderly conduct calculated to prevent the fire from being extinguished, or who forbids, prevents, or dissuades others from assisting to extinguish the same, shall be fined not more than $200 or imprisoned not more than 1 year, or both.
V.I. Code tit. 14, § 884 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 14 - Crimes|Chapter 43 - Health and Safety|§ 884. Explosion endangering human life

 Whoever maliciously by the explosion of gunpowder or other explosive substance, destroys, throws down, or injures the whole or any part of any building, by means of which the life or safety of a human being is endangered, shall be fined not more than $1,000 or imprisoned not more than 5 years, or both.
V.I. Code tit. 14, § 885 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 14 - Crimes|Chapter 43 - Health and Safety|§ 885. Failure to perform duties under health laws

 Whoever, being charged with the performance of any duty under the laws relating to the preservation of the public health, willfully neglects or refuses to perform the same, shall, except in cases where a specific punishment is prescribed, be fined not more than $200 or imprisoned not more than 1 year, or both.
V.I. Code tit. 14, § 886 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 14 - Crimes|Chapter 43 - Health and Safety|§ 886. Exposure in public place while infected with contagious disease

 Whoever willfully exposes himself or another afflicted with any contagious or infectious disease in any public place or thoroughfare, except in his necessary removal in a manner the least dangerous to the public health, shall be fined not more than $200 or imprisoned not more than 1 year, or both.
V.I. Code tit. 14, § 887 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 14 - Crimes|Chapter 43 - Health and Safety|§ 887. Intoxicated physician; acts performed by

 Whoever, being a physician and in a state of intoxication, does any act as a physician to another person by which the life of such person is endangered, shall be fined not more than $500 or imprisoned not more than one year, or both.
V.I. Code tit. 14, § 888 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 14 - Crimes|Chapter 43 - Health and Safety|§ 888. Exposure by another of HIV

 (a) Any person who exposes another to the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) by engaging in unprotected sexual activity or by sharing hypodermic needles/syringes when the infected person knows at the time of the unprotected sex/sharing of needles that he is infected with HIV, has not disclosed his HIV-positive status, and acts with the specific intent to infect the other person with HIV, shall be fined not more than $10,000 or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both. (b) Any person who exposes another to the human immunodeficiency virus by donating, selling, or attempting to donate or sell blood, semen, tissues, organs, or other bodily fluids for the use of another, except as determined necessary for medical research or testing, and when the infected person knows at the time that he is infected with HIV, has not disclosed his HIV-positive status, and acts with the specific intent to infect another person with HIV, shall be fined not more than $10,000 or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both. (c) Evidence that the person had knowledge of his HIV-positive status, without additional evidence, shall not be sufficient to prove specific intent. (d) Transmission of the Human Immunodeficiency Virus does not have to occur for a person to be convicted of a violation of this section. (e) As used in this section, the following definitions shall apply: (1) “Sexual activity” means insertive vaginal or anal intercourse on the part of an infected male, receptive consensual vaginal intercourse on the part of an infected woman with a male partner, or receptive consensual anal intercourse on the part of an infected man or woman with a male partner. (2) “Unprotected sexual activity” means sexual activity without the use of a condom.
V.I. Code tit. 14, § 895 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 14 - Crimes|Chapter 44 - Conversion|§ 895. Conversion of government property

 (a) Whoever embezzles, steals, purloins, or knowingly converts to his use or the use of another, or without authority, sells conveys or disposes of any record, voucher, warrant, money, or thing of value of the Virgin Islands or any department or agency thereof, or any property made or being made under contract with the Virgin Islands or the United States or any department or agency thereof; (b) Whoever receives, conceals or retains the same as described in subsection (a) with intent to convert it to his use or gain, knowing it to have been embezzled, stolen, purloined or converted, shall be fined in an amount up to $10,000 under this section, in addition to full restitution, or imprisoned not more than five (5) years, or both; but if the value of the property converted does not exceed the sum of $1,000, the person shall be fined up to $1,000, in addition to restitution ordered under this section or imprisonment for not more than one year, or both. (c) As used in this section and unless the context requires otherwise: (1) “conversion” means an unauthorized assumption and exercise of the right of ownership or possession with the intent to own goods, chattels or money or any thing of value belonging to the Government of the Virgin Islands or of the United States or any department or agency thereof; (2) “value” means face, par or market value, or cost of price, either wholesale or retail, whichever is greater. (3) the term, “property”, means any record, voucher, warrant, money or thing of value.
V.I. Code tit. 14, § 921 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 14 - Crimes|Chapter 45 - Homicide|§ 921. Murder defined

 Murder is the unlawful killing of a human being with malice aforethought.
V.I. Code tit. 14, § 922 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 14 - Crimes|Chapter 45 - Homicide|§ 922. First and second degree murder defined

 (a) All murder which— (1) is perpetrated by means of poison, lying in wait, torture, detonation of a bomb or by any other kind of willful, deliberate and premeditated killing; (2) is committed in the perpetration or attempt to perpetrate arson, burglary, kidnapping, rape, robbery or mayhem, assault in the first degree, assault in the second degree, assault in the third degree and larceny; or (3) is committed against (A) an official, law enforcement officer, or other officer or employee of the Government of the Virgin Islands while working with law enforcement officials in furtherance of a criminal investigation (i) while the victim is engaged in the performance of official duties; (ii) because of the performance of the victim's official duties; or (iii) because of the victim's status as a public servant; or (B) any person assisting a criminal investigation, while that assistance is being rendered and because it is first degree murder; is murder in the first degree. (b) All other kinds of murder are murder in the second degree.
V.I. Code tit. 14, § 923 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 14 - Crimes|Chapter 45 - Homicide|§ 923. Punishment for murder

 (a) Whoever commits murder in the first degree shall be imprisoned for the remainder of his natural life without parole. (b) Whoever commits murder in the second degree shall be imprisoned for not less than five (5) years, provided, that if such second degree murder was perpetrated upon a law enforcement officer while such officer was engaged in the performance of his official duties, the perpetrator shall be imprisoned for not less than ten (10) years.
V.I. Code tit. 14, § 924 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 14 - Crimes|Chapter 45 - Homicide|§ 924. Manslaughter defined and classified

 Manslaughter is the unlawful killing of a human being without malice aforethought. It is of two kinds— (1) voluntary; upon a sudden quarrel or heat of passion; or (2) involuntary; in the commission of an unlawful act, not amounting to a felony; or in the culpable omission of some legal duty; or in the commission of a lawful act which might produce death, in an unlawful manner, or without due caution and circumspection.
V.I. Code tit. 14, § 925 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 14 - Crimes|Chapter 45 - Homicide|§ 925. Punishment for manslaughter

 (a) Whoever commits voluntary manslaughter shall be imprisoned for not more than ten (10) years, provided, that if such voluntary manslaughter is perpetrated upon a law enforcement officer while such officer is engaged in the performance of his official duties, the perpetrator shall be imprisoned for not less than five (5) years nor more than fifteen (15) years. (b) Whoever commits involuntary manslaughter shall be imprisoned not more than 5 years.
V.I. Code tit. 14, § 926 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 14 - Crimes|Chapter 45 - Homicide|§ 926. Excusable homicide defined

 Homicide is excusable— (1) when committed by accident and misfortune, or in doing any lawful act by lawful means, with usual and ordinary caution, and without any unlawful intent; or (2) when committed by accident and misfortune, in the heat of passion, upon any sudden and sufficient provocation, or upon a sudden combat, when no undue advantage is taken, nor any dangerous weapon used, and when the killing is not done in a cruel or unusual manner.