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V.I. Code tit. 16, § 446d (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 16 - Domestic Relations|Chapter 13 - Support of Relations|Subchapter II - Interstate Family-Support Act|Article G - Support Proceeding Under Convention|§ 446d. Direct request

 (a) A petitioner may file a direct request seeking establishment or modification of a support order or determination of parentage of a child. In the proceeding, the law of the Virgin Islands applies. (b) A petitioner may file a direct request seeking recognition and enforcement of a support order or support agreement. In the proceeding, sections 446e through 446 apply. (c) In a direct request for recognition and enforcement of a Convention support order or foreign support agreement: (1) a security, bond, or deposit is not required to guarantee the payment of costs and expenses; and (2) an obligee or obligor that in the issuing country has benefited from free legal assistance is entitled to benefit, at least to the same extent, from any free legal assistance provided for by the law of the Virgin Islands under the same circumstances. (d) A petitioner filing a direct request is not entitled to assistance from the Division of Paternity and Child Support. (e) This article does not prevent the application of laws of the Virgin Islands that provide simplified, more expeditious rules regarding a direct request for recognition and enforcement of a foreign support order or foreign support agreement.
V.I. Code tit. 16, § 446e (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 16 - Domestic Relations|Chapter 13 - Support of Relations|Subchapter II - Interstate Family-Support Act|Article G - Support Proceeding Under Convention|§ 446e. Registration of Convention support order

 (a) Except as otherwise provided in this article, a party who is an individual or a support enforcement agency seeking recognition of a Convention support order shall register the order in Virgin Islands as provided in Article F. (b) Notwithstanding sections 411 and 433(a), a request for registration of a Convention support order must be accompanied by: (1) a complete text of the support order or an abstract or extract of the support order drawn up by the issuing foreign tribunal, which may be in the form recommended by the Hague Conference on Private International Law; (2) a record stating that the support order is enforceable in the issuing country; (3) if the respondent did not appear and was not represented in the proceedings in the issuing country, a record attesting, as appropriate, either that the respondent had proper notice of the proceedings and an opportunity to be heard or that the respondent had proper notice of the support order and an opportunity to be heard in a challenge or appeal on fact or law before a tribunal; (4) a record showing the amount of arrears, if any, and the date the amount was calculated; (5) a record showing a requirement for automatic adjustment of the amount of support, if any, and the information necessary to make the appropriate calculations; and (6) if necessary, a record showing the extent to which the applicant received free legal assistance in the issuing country. (c) A request for registration of a Convention support order may seek recognition and partial enforcement of the order. (d) A tribunal of the Virgin Islands may vacate the registration of a Convention support order without the filing of a contest under section 446f only if, acting on its own motion, the tribunal finds that recognition and enforcement of the order would be manifestly incompatible with public policy. (e) The tribunal shall promptly notify the parties of the registration or the order vacating the registration of a Convention support order.
V.I. Code tit. 16, § 446f (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 16 - Domestic Relations|Chapter 13 - Support of Relations|Subchapter II - Interstate Family-Support Act|Article G - Support Proceeding Under Convention|§ 446f. Contest of registered Convention support order

 (a) Except as otherwise provided in this article, sections 436 through 439 apply to a contest of a registered Convention support order. (b) A party contesting a registered Convention support order shall file a contest not later than 30 days after notice of the registration, but if the contesting party does not reside in the United States, the contest must be filed not later than 60 days after notice of the registration. (c) If the nonregistering party fails to contest the registered Convention support order by the time specified in subsection (b), the order is enforceable. (d) A contest of a registered Convention support order may be based only on grounds set forth in section 446g. The contesting party bears the burden of proof. (e) In a contest of a registered Convention support order, a tribunal of the Virgin Islands: (1) is bound by the findings of fact on which the foreign tribunal based its jurisdiction; and (2) may not review the merits of the order. (f) A tribunal of the Virgin Islands deciding a contest of a registered Convention support order shall promptly notify the parties of its decision. (g) A challenge or appeal, if any, does not stay the enforcement of a Convention support order unless there are exceptional circumstances.
V.I. Code tit. 16, § 446g (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 16 - Domestic Relations|Chapter 13 - Support of Relations|Subchapter II - Interstate Family-Support Act|Article G - Support Proceeding Under Convention|§ 446g. Recognition and enforcement of registered Convention support order

 (a) Except as otherwise provided in subsection (b), a tribunal of the Virgin Islands shall recognize and enforce a registered Convention support order. (b) The following grounds are the only grounds on which a tribunal of the Virgin Islands may refuse recognition and enforcement of a registered Convention support order: (1) recognition and enforcement of the order is manifestly incompatible with public policy, including the failure of the issuing tribunal to observe minimum standards of due process, which include notice and an opportunity to be heard; (2) the issuing tribunal lacked personal jurisdiction consistent with section 395; (3) the order is not enforceable in the issuing country; (4) the order was obtained by fraud in connection with a matter of procedure; (5) a record transmitted in accordance with section 446e lacks authenticity or integrity; (6) a proceeding between the same parties and having the same purpose is pending before a tribunal of the Virgin Islands and that proceeding was the first to be filed; (7) the order is incompatible with a more recent support order involving the same parties and having the same purpose if the more recent support order is entitled to recognition and enforcement under this subchapter the Virgin Islands; (8) payment, to the extent alleged arrears have been paid in whole or in part; (9) in a case in which the respondent neither appeared nor was represented in the proceeding in the issuing foreign country: (A) if the law of that country provides for prior notice of proceedings, the respondent did not have proper notice of the proceedings and an opportunity to be heard; or (B) if the law of that country does not provide for prior notice of the proceedings, the respondent did not have proper notice of the order and an opportunity to be heard in a challenge or appeal on fact or law before a tribunal; or (10) the order was made in violation of section 446j. (c) If a tribunal of the Virgin Islands does not recognize a Convention support order under subsection (b)(2), (4), or (9): (1) the tribunal may not dismiss the proceeding without allowing a reasonable time for a party to request the establishment of a new Convention support order; and (2) the Division of Paternity and Child Support shall take all appropriate measures to request a child-support order for the obligee if the application for recognition and enforcement was received under section 446c.
V.I. Code tit. 16, § 446h (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 16 - Domestic Relations|Chapter 13 - Support of Relations|Subchapter II - Interstate Family-Support Act|Article G - Support Proceeding Under Convention|§ 446h. Partial enforcement

 If a tribunal of the Virgin Islands does not recognize and enforce a Convention support order in its entirety, it shall enforce any severable part of the order. An application or direct request may seek recognition and partial enforcement of a Convention support order.
V.I. Code tit. 16, § 446i (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 16 - Domestic Relations|Chapter 13 - Support of Relations|Subchapter II - Interstate Family-Support Act|Article G - Support Proceeding Under Convention|§ 446i. Foreign support agreement

 (a) Except as otherwise provided in subsections (c) and (d), a tribunal of the Virgin Islands shall recognize and enforce a foreign support agreement registered in the Virgin Islands. (b) An application or direct request for recognition and enforcement of a foreign support agreement must be accompanied by: (1) a complete text of the foreign support agreement; and (2) a record stating that the foreign support agreement is enforceable as an order of support in the issuing country. (c) A tribunal of the Virgin Islands may vacate the registration of a foreign support agreement only if, acting on its own motion, the tribunal finds that recognition and enforcement would be manifestly incompatible with public policy. (d) In a contest of a foreign support agreement, a tribunal of the Virgin Islands may refuse recognition and enforcement of the agreement if it finds: (1) recognition and enforcement of the agreement is manifestly incompatible with public policy; (2) the agreement was obtained by fraud or falsification; (3) the agreement is incompatible with a support order involving the same parties and having the same purpose in the Virgin Islands, another state, or a foreign country if the support order is entitled to recognition and enforcement under this subchapter in the Virgin Islands; or (4) the record submitted under subsection (b) lacks authenticity or integrity. (e) A proceeding for recognition and enforcement of a foreign support agreement must be suspended during the pendency of a challenge to or appeal of the agreement before a tribunal of another state or a foreign country.
V.I. Code tit. 16, § 446j (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 16 - Domestic Relations|Chapter 13 - Support of Relations|Subchapter II - Interstate Family-Support Act|Article G - Support Proceeding Under Convention|§ 446j. Modification of Convention child-support order

 (a) A tribunal of the Virgin Islands may not modify a Convention child-support order if the obligee remains a resident of the foreign country where the support order was issued unless: (1) the obligee submits to the jurisdiction of a tribunal of the Virgin Islands, either expressly or by defending on the merits of the case without objecting to the jurisdiction at the first available opportunity; or (2) the foreign tribunal lacks or refuses to exercise jurisdiction to modify its support order or issue a new support order. (b) If a tribunal of the Virgin Islands does not modify a Convention child-support order because the order is not recognized in the Virgin Islands, section 446g(c) applies.
V.I. Code tit. 16, § 446k (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 16 - Domestic Relations|Chapter 13 - Support of Relations|Subchapter II - Interstate Family-Support Act|Article G - Support Proceeding Under Convention|§ 446k. Personal information; limitation on use

 Personal information gathered or transmitted under this article may be used only for the purposes for which it was gathered or transmitted.
V.I. Code tit. 16, § 446l (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 16 - Domestic Relations|Chapter 13 - Support of Relations|Subchapter II - Interstate Family-Support Act|Article G - Support Proceeding Under Convention|§ 446l. Record in original language; English

 A record filed with a tribunal of the Virgin Islands under this article must be in the original language and, if not in English, must be accompanied by an English translation.
V.I. Code tit. 16, § 447 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 16 - Domestic Relations|Chapter 13 - Support of Relations|Subchapter II - Interstate Family-Support Act|Article H - Intergovernmental Rendition|§ 447. Grounds for rendition.

 (a) For purposes of this article, “Governor” includes an individual performing the functions of Governor or the executive authority of a state covered by this subchapter. (b) The Governor of the Virgin Islands may: (1) demand that the Governor of another state surrender an individual found in the other state who is charged criminally in this state with having failed to provide for the support of an obligee; or (2) on the demand of the Governor of another state, surrender an individual found in the Virgin Islands who is charged criminally in the other state with having failed to provide for the support of an obligee. (c) A provision for extradition of individuals not inconsistent with this subchapter applies to the demand even if the individual whose surrender is demanded was not in the demanding state when the crime was allegedly committed and has not fled therefrom.
V.I. Code tit. 16, § 447a (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 16 - Domestic Relations|Chapter 13 - Support of Relations|Subchapter II - Interstate Family-Support Act|Article H - Intergovernmental Rendition|§ 447a. Conditions of rendition

 (a) Before making a demand that the Governor of another slate surrender an individual charged criminally in the Virgin Islands with having failed to provide for the support of an obligee, the Governor of the Virgin Islands may require a prosecutor of the Virgin Islands to demonstrate that at least 60 days previously the obligee had initiated proceedings for support pursuant to this subchapter or that the proceeding would be of no avail. (b) If, under this subchapter or a law substantially similar to this subchapter, the Governor of another state makes a demand that the Governor of the Virgin Islands surrender an individual charged criminally in that state with having failed to provide for the support of a child or other individual to whom a duty of support is owed, the Governor may require a prosecutor to investigate the demand and report whether a proceeding for support has been initiated or would be effective. If it appears that a proceeding would be effective but has not been initiated, the Governor may delay honoring the demand for a reasonable time to permit the initiation of a proceeding. (c) If a proceeding for support has been initiated and the individual whose rendition is demanded prevails, the Governor may decline to honor the demand. If the petitioner prevails and the individual whose rendition is demanded is subject to a support order, the Governor may decline to honor the demand if the individual is complying with the support order.
V.I. Code tit. 16, § 449a (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 16 - Domestic Relations|Chapter 13 - Support of Relations|Subchapter II - Interstate Family-Support Act|Article I - Miscellaneous Provisions|§ 449a. Uniformity of application and construction

 In applying and construing this subchapter, consideration must be given to the need to promote uniformity of the law with respect to its subject matter among states that enact the Uniform Interstate Family Support Act, as amended in 2008.
V.I. Code tit. 16, § 449b (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 16 - Domestic Relations|Chapter 13 - Support of Relations|Subchapter II - Interstate Family-Support Act|Article I - Miscellaneous Provisions|§ 449b. Transitional provision

 This subchapter applies to proceedings begun on or after the effective date of this subchapter to establish a support order or determine parentage of a child or to register, recognize, enforce, or modify a prior support order, determination, or agreement, whenever issued or entered.
V.I. Code tit. 16, § 449c (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 16 - Domestic Relations|Chapter 13 - Support of Relations|Subchapter II - Interstate Family-Support Act|Article I - Miscellaneous Provisions|§ 449c. Severability

 If any provision of this subchapter or its application to any person or circumstance is held invalid, the invalidity does not affect other provisions or applications of this subchapter which can be given effect without the invalid provision or application, and to this end the provisions of this subchapter are severable.
V.I. Code tit. 16, § 449d (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 16 - Domestic Relations|Chapter 13 - Support of Relations|Subchapter II - Interstate Family-Support Act|Article I - Miscellaneous Provisions|§ 449d. Controlling subchapter

 If a provision of this subchapter is inconsistent with a provision of subchapter I of this chapter, this subchapter controls.
V.I. Code tit. 19, § 31 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 19 - Health|Part I - General Provisions|Chapter 3 - Venereal Diseases|Subchapter I - Venereal Diseases|§ 31. Enumeration of venereal diseases; duties of Commissioner of Health

 Venereal diseases are held to be infectious, communicable and dangerous to the public health and welfare. The control of venereal diseases in the Virgin Islands shall be vested in the Commissioner of Health. The Commissioner shall exercise every effort to cure and prevent the spread of such diseases. Syphilis, gonorrhea, chancroid, granuloma inguinale and lymphopathia venereum are declared venereal diseases.
V.I. Code tit. 19, § 32 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 19 - Health|Part I - General Provisions|Chapter 3 - Venereal Diseases|Subchapter I - Venereal Diseases|§ 32. Report of venereal disease patients

 Physicians employed by the Virgin Islands and privately practicing physicians shall report patients being treated by them for venereal disease to the Commissioner of Health. Privately practicing physicians may report their patients by number but if treatment is refused, or the patient stops treatment before being discharged cured, the physicians shall report such delinquencies by name and give such information as may be necessary to identify such patients to the Commissioner of Health. Physicians reporting patients with venereal disease shall examine or cause to be examined contacts of the patient reported. If any patient refuses to divulge identity of contacts, his name shall be reported by the physician to the Commissioner of Health. If known contacts refuse to be examined, their names, likewise, shall be reported by the physicians concerned to the Commissioner of Health.
V.I. Code tit. 19, § 32b (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 19 - Health|Part I - General Provisions|Chapter 3 - Venereal Diseases|Subchapter I - Venereal Diseases|§ 32b. Partner notification

 (a) The Department of Health and/or its authorized representatives may interview any person infected with HIV (as per confirmatory blood test), or anyone directly named as a contact to a known infected individual, for the express purpose of partner notification, which includes risk reduction, counseling, testing and/or treatment, as the same might be deemed appropriate. (b) All information gathered in the course of partner notification shall be held confidential and shall be subject to the rules and regulations governing patient confidentiality promulgated by the Commissioner of Health, pursuant to section 32a of this title. Any person who violates the provisions of this section, or the rules and regulations promulgated therefor, shall be fined up to $3,000 for each offense and may be terminated from his position of employment. (c) Any person who is determined to be HIV infected, who may reveal the name or names of persons who they may have perceived to be at risk for HIV infection, especially of sexual contacts or needle-sharing partners, for the express purpose of facilitating partner notification, shall not be held liable in a civil action for such a revelation unless the revelation is made falsely or with reckless disregard for the truth.
V.I. Code tit. 19, § 32c (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 19 - Health|Part I - General Provisions|Chapter 3 - Venereal Diseases|Subchapter I - Venereal Diseases|§ 32c. Standards of reporting cases of HIV infection and AIDS

 The physician rendering the diagnosis of HIV infection or AIDS or providing treatment for the same shall report the initial diagnosis and date (by month, day and year) pertaining to HIV diagnosis or AIDS indicator diseases as the same shall be determined by the Commissioner of the Department of Health or an authorized representative, and as established by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention of the United States Public Health Service. All clinical laboratories shall report, in accordance with the provisions of sections 32a and 32b of this title and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder, all results diagnostic of HIV and AIDS.
V.I. Code tit. 19, § 33 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 19 - Health|Part I - General Provisions|Chapter 3 - Venereal Diseases|Subchapter I - Venereal Diseases|§ 33. Treatment of infected persons; hospitalization; penalties for refusal

 (a) Persons who suffer from venereal disease are entitled, without regard to whether they can afford to pay for their medical treatment, to demand that they be taken under treatment at public expense, and likewise are under obligation to submit themselves to such treatment, unless they can show that they have put themselves under proper private medical care. Venereal patients under private medical care shall nevertheless be subject to the supervision of the Commissioner of Health. (b) Where, after discharge from active treatment, there is special ground for fearing a return of the disease in a contagious form, the physician, who has treated the sick person can give him or her an injunction to appear before him at a specified time for examination or to produce a certificate from an authorized physician that no such relapse has taken place. (c) Any person suffering from venereal disease may be placed in a hospital, in the discretion of the Commissioner of Health. Whoever refuses to submit to such hospitalization shall be fined not more than $100 or imprisoned not more than 180 days, or both.
V.I. Code tit. 19, § 34 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 19 - Health|Part I - General Provisions|Chapter 3 - Venereal Diseases|Subchapter I - Venereal Diseases|§ 34. Examination of suspected persons

 Persons suspected by the health administration of being infected with venereal disease shall be examined by a physician, under the direction of the Commissioner of Health. If any such person is found to be suffering from a venereal disease, he shall submit to treatment as provided under section 33 of this title.
V.I. Code tit. 19, § 35 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 19 - Health|Part I - General Provisions|Chapter 3 - Venereal Diseases|Subchapter I - Venereal Diseases|§ 35. Prenatal examination

 Within 120 days after conception all pregnant women shall submit to an examination by a practicing physician subject to the supervision of the Commissioner of Health to determine their freedom from active venereal infection. If found infected they shall be treated as provided in section 33 of this title.
V.I. Code tit. 19, § 36 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 19 - Health|Part I - General Provisions|Chapter 3 - Venereal Diseases|Subchapter I - Venereal Diseases|§ 36. Nursing of diseased child; examination of wet-nurses

 (a) A child who is suffering from or whose mother is suffering from venereal disease shall not be given to be suckled by any other woman than its own mother. (b) No woman may act as wet-nurse without previous examination for venereal disease before each case.
V.I. Code tit. 19, § 37 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 19 - Health|Part I - General Provisions|Chapter 3 - Venereal Diseases|Subchapter I - Venereal Diseases|§ 37. Examinations subject to control of Commissioner of Health

 The medical examinations referred to in this chapter are to be conducted at hospitals as prescribed by the Commissioner of Health or privately by duly licensed physicians subject to the approval of the Commissioner of Health.