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V.I. Code tit. 5, § 585 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 5 - Judicial Procedure|Subtitle 1 - Civil Procedure|Part IV - Judgment|Chapter 47 - Uniform Interstate Enforcement of Domestic-Violence Protection Orders|§ 585. Registration

 (a) Any individual may register a foreign protection order in this State. To register a foreign protection order, an individual shall: (1) present a certified copy of the order to the Office of the Clerk of the Superior Court; or (2) present a certified copy of the order to Office of the Attorney General and request that the order be registered with the Office of the Clerk of the Superior Court. (b) Upon receipt of a foreign protection order, the Office of the Attorney General shall register the order in accordance with this section. After the order is registered, the Office of the Clerk of the Superior Court shall furnish to the individual registering the order a certified copy of the registered order. (c) The Office of the Clerk of the Superior Court shall register an order upon presentation of a copy of a protection order which has been certified by the issuing State. A registered foreign protection order that is inaccurate or is not currently in effect must be corrected or removed from the registry in accordance with the law of this State. (d) An individual registering a foreign protection order shall file an affidavit by the protected individual stating that, to the best of the protected individual's knowledge, the order is currently in effect. (e) A foreign protection order registered under this chapter may be entered in any existing state or federal registry of protection orders, in accordance with applicable law. (f) A fee may not be charged for the registration of a foreign protection order under this chapter.
V.I. Code tit. 5, § 586 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 5 - Judicial Procedure|Subtitle 1 - Civil Procedure|Part IV - Judgment|Chapter 47 - Uniform Interstate Enforcement of Domestic-Violence Protection Orders|§ 586. Civil and criminal liability

 The Government of the Virgin Islands, a law enforcement officer, prosecuting attorney, clerk of court, or any governmental official acting in an official capacity, except for gross negligence, is immune from civil and criminal liability for an act or omission arising out of the registration or enforcement of a foreign protection order or the detention or arrest of an alleged violator of a foreign protection order if the act or omission was done in good faith in an effort to comply with this chapter.
V.I. Code tit. 5, § 587 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 5 - Judicial Procedure|Subtitle 1 - Civil Procedure|Part IV - Judgment|Chapter 47 - Uniform Interstate Enforcement of Domestic-Violence Protection Orders|§ 587. Other remedies

 A protected individual who pursues remedies under this chapter is not precluded from pursuing other legal or equitable remedies against the respondent.
V.I. Code tit. 5, § 588 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 5 - Judicial Procedure|Subtitle 1 - Civil Procedure|Part IV - Judgment|Chapter 47 - Uniform Interstate Enforcement of Domestic-Violence Protection Orders|§ 588. Application of chapter

 This chapter applies to protection orders issued before the effective date of this chapter and to continuing actions for enforcement of foreign protection orders commenced before the effective date of this chapter. A request for enforcement of a foreign protection order made on or after the effective date of this chapter for violations of a foreign protection order occurring before the effective date of this chapter is governed by this chapter.
V.I. Code tit. 5, § 589 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 5 - Judicial Procedure|Subtitle 1 - Civil Procedure|Part IV - Judgment|Chapter 47 - Uniform Interstate Enforcement of Domestic-Violence Protection Orders|§ 589. Construction

 In applying and construing this Uniform Act, consideration must be given to the need to promote uniformity of the law with respect to its subject matter among States that enact it.
V.I. Code tit. 5, § 590 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 5 - Judicial Procedure|Subtitle 1 - Civil Procedure|Part IV - Judgment|Chapter 47 - Uniform Interstate Enforcement of Domestic-Violence Protection Orders|§ 590. Separability

 If any provision of this chapter or its application to any person or circumstance is held invalid, the invalidity does not affect other provisions or applications of this chapter which can be given effect without the invalid provision or application, and to this end the provisions of this Act are severable.
V.I. Code tit. 5, § 651 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 5 - Judicial Procedure|Subtitle 1 - Civil Procedure|Part V - Evidence|Chapter 61 - Subpoenas; Rights and Duties of Witnesses|§ 651. Proof of service of subpoena

 Proof of service of a subpoena shall be made in the same manner as in the service of a summons.
V.I. Code tit. 5, § 652 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 5 - Judicial Procedure|Subtitle 1 - Civil Procedure|Part V - Evidence|Chapter 61 - Subpoenas; Rights and Duties of Witnesses|§ 652. Duty of witness to attend

 It is the duty of a witness duly served with a subpoena to attend at the time appointed, with any papers, books, documents, or other things under his control required by the subpoena, to answer all pertinent and legal questions, and, unless sooner discharged, to remain until the testimony is closed.
V.I. Code tit. 5, § 653 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 5 - Judicial Procedure|Subtitle 1 - Civil Procedure|Part V - Evidence|Chapter 61 - Subpoenas; Rights and Duties of Witnesses|§ 653. Liability of witness disobeying subpoena

 A witness disobeying a subpoena duly served shall forfeit to the party requiring his attendance all damages which he may sustain by the failure of the witness to attend, which forfeiture and damages may be recovered by an action at law.
V.I. Code tit. 5, § 654 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 5 - Judicial Procedure|Subtitle 1 - Civil Procedure|Part V - Evidence|Chapter 61 - Subpoenas; Rights and Duties of Witnesses|§ 654. Arrest of witness

 In case of the failure of a witness to attend, the court or officer before whom he is required to attend, upon proof of the due service of the subpoena, may issue a warrant to the marshal requiring him to arrest the witness and bring him before the court or officer where his attendance was required.
V.I. Code tit. 5, § 655 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 5 - Judicial Procedure|Subtitle 1 - Civil Procedure|Part V - Evidence|Chapter 61 - Subpoenas; Rights and Duties of Witnesses|§ 655. Immunity of witness from arrest

 (a) Every person who has been, in good faith, served with a subpoena to attend as witness before a court, judge, commissioner, referee, or other officer, is exonerated from arrest or service of summons in a civil case while going to the place of attendance, necessarily remaining there, and returning therefrom. (b) The arrest of or service of a summons upon a witness contrary to this section is void, and when wilfully made is a contempt of court; and the officer making it is responsible to the witness arrested or served for double the amount of damages which may be assessed against him therefor, and is also liable to an action at the suit of the party serving the witness with the subpoena for the damages sustained by him in consequence of the arrest or service. (c) The court, judge, or officer before whom the attendance of the witness is required may discharge a witness from an arrest made in violation of this section.
V.I. Code tit. 5, § 656 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 5 - Judicial Procedure|Subtitle 1 - Civil Procedure|Part V - Evidence|Chapter 61 - Subpoenas; Rights and Duties of Witnesses|§ 656. Protection of witness

 It is the right of the witness to be protected from irrelevant, insulting, or improper questions or from harsh or insulting demeanor; to be detained only so long as the interests of justice require it; and to be examined only as to matters legal and pertinent to the issue.
V.I. Code tit. 5, § 657 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 5 - Judicial Procedure|Subtitle 1 - Civil Procedure|Part V - Evidence|Chapter 61 - Subpoenas; Rights and Duties of Witnesses|§ 657. Persons present

 A person voluntarily present in court or before a judicial officer may be required to testify in the same manner as if he were in attendance before such court or officer on a subpoena.
V.I. Code tit. 5, § 658 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 5 - Judicial Procedure|Subtitle 1 - Civil Procedure|Part V - Evidence|Chapter 61 - Subpoenas; Rights and Duties of Witnesses|§ 658. Prisoner as witness

 If the witness is a prisoner, confined in a prison within the Virgin Islands, an order for his temporary removal and production, before a court or officer, for the purpose of being orally examined, may be made by the district court. Such order shall only be made upon the affidavit of the party desiring the order, or someone on his behalf, showing the nature of the action or proceeding, the testimony expected from the witness, and its materiality.
V.I. Code tit. 5, § 659 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 5 - Judicial Procedure|Subtitle 1 - Civil Procedure|Part V - Evidence|Chapter 61 - Subpoenas; Rights and Duties of Witnesses|§ 659. Service of subpoena by breaking into building or vessel

 The marshal or any deputy specially appointed by him, but none other, is authorized and required to break into any building or vessel in which a witness may be concealed, so as to prevent the service of a subpoena, and serve the same upon such witness.
V.I. Code tit. 5, § 660 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 5 - Judicial Procedure|Subtitle 1 - Civil Procedure|Part V - Evidence|Chapter 61 - Subpoenas; Rights and Duties of Witnesses|§ 660. Compensation and expenses of witness

 A witness attending in the district court of the Virgin Islands, or before a district court commissioner, or before any person authorized to take his deposition pursuant to any rule or order of court, shall receive $4 for each day's attendance and for the time necessarily occupied in going to and returning from the same, and shall be reimbursed for his necessary and reasonable expenses of travel in going from and returning to his place of residence. A witness who is not a salaried employee of the Virgin Islands or Federal government and who is not in custody and who is required to attend, as herein described, in a judicial division in which he does not reside, shall be entitled to an additional allowance of $8 per day for subsistence including the time necessarily occupied in going to and returning from the place of attendance.
V.I. Code tit. 5, § 661 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 5 - Judicial Procedure|Subtitle 1 - Civil Procedure|Part V - Evidence|Chapter 61 - Subpoenas; Rights and Duties of Witnesses|§ 661. Warrant of commitment

 Every warrant of commitment issued by a court or officer for contempt arising from disobedience to a subpoena, or refusal to be sworn, or to answer as a witness, or to subscribe an affidavit or deposition when required, shall specify therein the cause of the commitment; and if it is for refusing to answer, such question shall be stated in the warrant.
V.I. Code tit. 5, § 691 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 5 - Judicial Procedure|Subtitle 1 - Civil Procedure|Part V - Evidence|Chapter 63 - Affidavits, Depositions, and Oaths|§ 691. Nature and form of oath or affirmation

 (a) An oath is an outward attestation by which a person signifies that he is bound in conscience to perform an act or to speak or has spoken faithfully and truthfully. (b) Whenever the court or officer before which a person is offered as a witness is satisfied that he has a peculiar mode of swearing, connected with or in addition to the usual form of administration, which, in his opinion, is more solemn or obligatory, the court or officer may in its discretion adopt that mode. (c) When a person is sworn who believes in any other than the Christian religion, he may be sworn according to the peculiar ceremonies of his religion, if there are any such ceremonies. (d) Any person who has conscientious scruples against taking an oath may make his solemn affirmation. (e) Whenever an oath is required by any provision of this title, an affirmation shall be deemed equivalent thereto, and a false affirmation shall be deemed perjury equally with a false oath. (f) All oaths and affirmations when administered in judicial proceedings in this territory shall be substantially in form as follows: “You do solemnly swear (or affirm, as the case may be) that the testimony you will give in this case is the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth.”
V.I. Code tit. 5, § 692 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 5 - Judicial Procedure|Subtitle 1 - Civil Procedure|Part V - Evidence|Chapter 63 - Affidavits, Depositions, and Oaths|§ 692. Officers authorized to administer oaths

 Every court, judge, clerk of court, district court commissioner, notary public, and every officer or person authorized to take testimony in any action or proceeding or to decide upon evidence, has power to administer oaths or affirmations.
V.I. Code tit. 5, § 693 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 5 - Judicial Procedure|Subtitle 1 - Civil Procedure|Part V - Evidence|Chapter 63 - Affidavits, Depositions, and Oaths|§ 693. Affidavits taken in Virgin Islands

 An affidavit may be taken in the Virgin Islands before any officer authorized to administer oaths.
V.I. Code tit. 5, § 694 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 5 - Judicial Procedure|Subtitle 1 - Civil Procedure|Part V - Evidence|Chapter 63 - Affidavits, Depositions, and Oaths|§ 694. Affidavits taken outside Virgin Islands

 An affidavit to be used in the Virgin Islands may be taken in any State, territory, district, commonwealth, or possession of the United States, or in any foreign country, before: (1) A commissioner appointed by the Governor of the Virgin Islands to take affidavits in such jurisdiction; or (2) An officer authorized by Title 28 to take acknowledgments of written instruments in such jurisdiction, whose certificate that the affidavit was taken before him shall be authenticated in a manner similar to that required for the authentication of an acknowledgment.
V.I. Code tit. 5, § 696 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 5 - Judicial Procedure|Subtitle 1 - Civil Procedure|Part V - Evidence|Chapter 63 - Affidavits, Depositions, and Oaths|§ 696. Use of affidavits and depositions

 (a) Except as provided in section 697 of this title, an affidavit may be used — (1) to prove the service of a summons, notice, or other paper in an action; (2) to obtain a provisional remedy; (3) to obtain the examination of a witness; (4) to obtain a stay of proceedings; (5) upon a motion; or (6) in any other case expressly provided for by law or rules of court. (b) In all cases other than those mentioned in subsection (a) of this section, where a written declaration under oath is used, it must be a deposition.
V.I. Code tit. 5, § 697 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 5 - Judicial Procedure|Subtitle 1 - Civil Procedure|Part V - Evidence|Chapter 63 - Affidavits, Depositions, and Oaths|§ 697. Affidavit for provisional remedy; cross-examination of affiant

 Whenever a provisional remedy has been allowed upon affidavit, the party against whom it is allowed may serve upon the party by whom it was obtained a notice requiring any person making the affidavit to be produced before some officer authorized to administer oaths, therein named, for cross-examination. Thereupon the party to whom the remedy was allowed shall lose the benefit of the affidavit and all proceedings founded thereon, unless within eight days, or such other time as the court directs upon a previous notice to his adversary of at least three days, he produces the affiant for examination before the officer mentioned in the notice, or some other of like authority, provided for in the order of the court. Upon such production the affiant may be examined by either party.
V.I. Code tit. 5, § 698 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 5 - Judicial Procedure|Subtitle 1 - Civil Procedure|Part V - Evidence|Chapter 63 - Affidavits, Depositions, and Oaths|§ 698. Affidavit for proof of publication

 (a) Proof of the publication of a document or notice required by law, or by an order of court, to be published in a newspaper, may be made by the affidavit of the printer of the newspaper or his foreman or principal clerk, annexed to a copy of the document or notice, specifying the times when and the paper in which the publication was made. Such affidavit must be made within six months after the last day of publication. (b) If such affidavit is made in an action or proceeding pending in a court, it may be filed with the clerk thereof; and the same is primary evidence of the facts therein stated.
V.I. Code tit. 5, § 699 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 5 - Judicial Procedure|Subtitle 1 - Civil Procedure|Part V - Evidence|Chapter 63 - Affidavits, Depositions, and Oaths|§ 699. Affirmation of truth of statement by attorney

 The statement of an attorney authorized by law and admitted to practice in the Courts of the Virgin Islands, who is not a party to an action, when subscribed and affirmed by him to be true under the penalties of perjury, may be served or filed in an action in lieu of and with the same force and effect as an affidavit duly notarized.
V.I. Code tit. 5, § 701 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 5 - Judicial Procedure|Subtitle 1 - Civil Procedure|Part V - Evidence|Chapter 64 - Interstate Compact for Juveniles|§ 701. Short title

 This chapter may be cited as “The Interstate Compact for Juveniles Act”.
V.I. Code tit. 5, § 701a (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 5 - Judicial Procedure|Subtitle 1 - Civil Procedure|Part V - Evidence|Chapter 64 - Interstate Compact for Juveniles|§ 701a. Interstate Compact for Juveniles

 The Interstate Compact for Juveniles is enacted into law, ratified and entered into with all other jurisdictions legally joining the Compact in substantially the form set forth in this chapter.
V.I. Code tit. 5, § 706 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 5 - Judicial Procedure|Subtitle 1 - Civil Procedure|Part V - Evidence|Chapter 64 - Interstate Compact for Juveniles|§ 706. Rulemaking functions of the Interstate Commission

 (a) The Interstate Commission shall promulgate and publish rules in order to effectively and efficiently achieve the purposes of the Compact. (b) Rulemaking must occur pursuant to the criteria set forth in this section and the by-laws and rules adopted pursuant thereto. The rulemaking must substantially conform to the principles of the “Model State Administrative Procedures Act,” 1981 Act, Uniform Laws Annotated, Vol. 15, p.1 (2000), or such other administrative procedures act, as the Interstate Commission considers appropriate consistent with due process requirements under the U.S. Constitution as now or hereafter interpreted by the U.S. Supreme Court. All rules and amendments become binding as of the date specified, as published with the final version of the rule as approved by the Commission. (c) When promulgating a rule, the Interstate Commission shall, at a minimum: (1) Publish the proposed rule's entire text stating the reason for that proposed rule; (2) Allow and invite any and all persons to submit written data, facts, opinions and arguments, which information must be added to the record, and be made publicly available; (3) Provide an opportunity for an informal hearing if petitioned by 10 or more persons; and (4) Promulgate a final rule and its effective date, if appropriate, based on input from state or local officials, or interested parties. (d) The Interstate Commission shall allow, not later than sixty days after a rule is promulgated, any interested person to file a petition in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia or in the Federal District Court where the Interstate Commission's principal office is located for judicial review of such rule. If the Court finds that the Interstate Commission's action is not supported by substantial evidence in the rulemaking record, the Court shall hold the rule unlawful and set it aside. For purposes of this subsection, evidence is substantial if it would be considered substantial evidence under the Model State Administrative Procedures Act. (e) If a majority of the legislatures of the compacting states rejects a rule, those states may, by enactment of a statute or resolution in the same manner used to adopt the Compact, cause the rule to have no further force in any compacting state. (f) The existing rules governing the operation of the Interstate Compact on Juveniles superseded by this Act become null 12 months after the first meeting of the Interstate Commission established under this Compact. (g) Upon determination by the Interstate Commission that a state-of-emergency exists, it may promulgate an emergency rule that becomes effective immediately upon adoption, except that the usual rulemaking procedures provided under this Compact must be retroactively applied to such rule as soon as reasonably possible, but no later than 90 days after the effective date of the emergency rule.
V.I. Code tit. 5, § 707 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 5 - Judicial Procedure|Subtitle 1 - Civil Procedure|Part V - Evidence|Chapter 64 - Interstate Compact for Juveniles|§ 707. Oversight, enforcement and dispute resolution by Interstate Commission

 (a) Oversight. (1) The Interstate Commission shall oversee the administration and operations of the interstate movement of juveniles subject to this Compact in the compacting states and shall monitor such activities being administered in non-compacting states which may significantly affect compacting states. (2)  (A) The Courts and executive agencies in each compacting state shall enforce this Compact and shall take all actions necessary and appropriate to effectuate the Compact's purposes and intent. The provisions of this Compact and the rules promulgated under this Compact must be received by all the judges, public officers, commissions, and departments of the State government as evidence of the authorized statute and administrative rules. (B) All Courts shall take judicial notice of the Compact and the rules. In any judicial or administrative proceeding in a compacting state pertaining to the subject matter of this Compact which may affect the powers, responsibilities or actions of the Interstate Commission, the Commission is entitled to receive all service of process in any such proceeding, and has standing to intervene in the proceeding for all purposes. (b) Dispute Resolution. (1) The compacting states shall report to the Interstate Commission on all issues and activities necessary for the administration of the Compact as well as issues and activities pertaining to compliance with the provisions of the Compact and its bylaws and rules. (2) The Interstate Commission shall attempt, upon the request of a compacting state, to resolve any disputes or other issues that are subject to the Compact and which may arise among compacting states and between compacting and non-compacting states. The Commission shall promulgate a rule providing for both mediation and binding dispute resolution for disputes among the compacting states. (3) The Interstate Commission, in the reasonable exercise of its discretion, shall enforce the provisions and rules of this Compact using any or all means set forth in section 711 of this chapter.