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V.I. Code tit. 19, § 1251 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 19 - Health|Part V - Mental Health|Chapter 47 - Virgin Islands Central Cancer Registry Program|§ 1251. Definitions

 In this chapter: (1) “Cancer” means all malignant neoplasms, regardless of the tissue of origin, including malignant lymphoma, Hodgkin’s disease, and leukemia. (2) “Health care facility” means hospitals; health care clinics; health centers; skilled nursing facilities; mental health facilities; kidney disease treatment centers, including freestanding hemodialysis units; intermediate care facilities; ambulatory surgical facilities; rehabilitation facilities; health maintenance organizations; and hospice care facilities. (3) “Health care provider” means a person, corporation, facility or institution licensed in the Territory to provide health care or professional, medical services including a medical, osteopathic, chiropractic or naturopathic physician; hospital; dentist; registered nurse, including an advanced practice registered nurse; optometrist; podiatrist; physical therapist; psychologist; pharmacist and laboratory technician. (4) “Identifying Information” means a coded description of the type of cancer, the stage to which it has advanced, geographic region, age, sex and ethnicity of the diagnosed person. (5) “Pathology Laboratory” means any facility that reports the results of examinations of organ tissue, cells, or blood specimens from the human body for cancer to physicians who use the reports for purposes of diagnosis or patient care. (6) “Registry” means the Virgin Islands Central Cancer Registry Program. (7) “Reportable Neoplasm” means any form of in-situ or invasive malignant neoplasms, carcinomas, basal cell and squamous cell carcinoma of the skin; lymphoma, including Hodgkin’s and non-Hodgkin’s disease; sarcoma; leukemia; benign and malignant tumor in the central nervous system, or any other malignant growth or neoplastic disease. (8) “Central Cancer Registry Standard-Setting Organization” means national and international organizations responsible for developing and implementing standards for cancer reporting for central registries. (9) “Territory” means the Virgin Islands of the United States.
V.I. Code tit. 19, § 1252 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 19 - Health|Part V - Mental Health|Chapter 47 - Virgin Islands Central Cancer Registry Program|§ 1252. Establishment of the Cancer Registry

 (a) There is established within the Department of Health under the division of and supervision of the Virgin Islands Chronic Disease Prevention Program, the Virgin Islands Central Cancer Registry. The Registry serves as the territorial surveillance system and repository of cancer data that includes data regarding incidence, mortality, stage of the disease, risk factors and exposures to hazardous substances in the workplace or environment. (b) To accomplish its mandate, the Registry is responsible for collecting information on all reportable neoplasms for which a diagnosis of, or the first course of treatment of, reportable cancer was performed in the Territory, independent of patient’s residence. (c) The Registry shall establish and regularly convene an advisory committee to assist in building consensus, cooperation, and planning for the Program. Representation on the advisory committee includes, but is not limited to representatives from the cancer prevention and control field; chronic disease programs; hospitals, clinicians, and cancer oriented health educators, epidemiologists and statisticians. (d) The Registry shall train and certify personnel designated by the reporting entities as persons responsible for reporting information to the Registry. (e) The Health Commissioner shall promulgate administrative guidelines as may be amended from time to time to ensure that the Registry performs its mandate consistent with federal guidelines of central cancer registries standard-setting organizations.
V.I. Code tit. 19, § 1253 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 19 - Health|Part V - Mental Health|Chapter 47 - Virgin Islands Central Cancer Registry Program|§ 1253. Participation in program

 (a) Each healthcare provider and health care facility shall report in an electronic format or any other format requested by the Registry each new case of a reportable neoplasm to the Registry not later than 180 days after the date of diagnosis or date of first contact with the already diagnosed patient. (b) Private or public pathology laboratories, clinical laboratories, and dermatopathologists shall report to the Registry every pathology, cytology, bone marrow and autopsy report, pathological reviews, tumor markers, molecular studies, and any other report that is consistent with a clinical or pathological diagnosis or contributes in determining the stage of the disease at the time of diagnosis of the reportable neoplasm in an electronic format or in a format requested by the Registry not later than 30 days after the diagnosis or test. (c) If an entity fails to provide the required information in the format or within the time specified, or if the data is of unacceptable quality, the Commissioner of Health may enter the facility to obtain the information. When this happens, the entity shall reimburse the Registry for the cost associated with obtaining and reporting the information. (d) Each report submitted to the Registry must contain: (1) the patient’s date and place of birth; sex; race; ethnicity; marital status; usual occupation and industry; (2) the date of diagnosis; (3) topography; (4) histology; including the type involved in the reportable neoplasm; (5) characteristic of the reportable neoplasm - the behavior, differentiation grade, size; stage of the reportable neoplasm at the time of diagnosis; (6) the cancer directed first course of treatment; (7) the name of the health care facility or health care provider; and (8) other information required by any of the Central Cancer Registry Standard-Setting Organizations.
V.I. Code tit. 19, § 1254 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 19 - Health|Part V - Mental Health|Chapter 47 - Virgin Islands Central Cancer Registry Program|§ 1254. Confidentiality

 (a) All cancer case data provided to the Registry must be kept confidential. No information reported to the Registry which identifies or could lead to the identification of an individual cancer patient may be disclosed to any person or entity; except that the identifying information may be disclosed to another state cancer registry and territorial health officers. (b) State cancer registries, cancer researchers or federal cancer control agencies that receive cancer case data from the Registry shall enter into an agreement with the Registry to keep the information confidential. (c) All Registry employees and researchers shall sign a confidentiality agreement. These agreements remain effective after the employee or researcher no longer has a relationship with the Registry.
V.I. Code tit. 19, § 1255 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 19 - Health|Part V - Mental Health|Chapter 47 - Virgin Islands Central Cancer Registry Program|§ 1255. Disclosure

 (a) Cancer case data may be shared with cancer researchers or federal cancer control agencies for the purposes of cancer prevention, control, and research upon the submittal of documentation to the Registry providing that research in cancer prevention or control is ongoing or approval for such research has been granted. If applicable, the Registry shall also request evidence of compliance with the requirements of 45 CFR Part 46. (b) The Registry may share statistical compilations of the cancer case data with state cancer registries and federal cancer control agencies for the following reasons: (1) to perform studies on the sources and causes of cancer; (2) to provide key clues about the possible cause of cancer; (3) to provide insight when a particular environmental carcinogen is suspected; (4) to track the changing patterns of cancer incidence; and (5) for any other clinical, epidemiological, or other cancer research.
V.I. Code tit. 19, § 1256 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 19 - Health|Part V - Mental Health|Chapter 47 - Virgin Islands Central Cancer Registry Program|§ 1256. Liability

 (a) No person who in good faith discloses privileged or confidential information or provides cancer case reports to the Registry or allows the Registry access to a cancer case report is liable in any civil action. (b) The protection from liability provided in subsection (a) does not apply to the unauthorized disclosure of confidential or privileged information when the disclosure is due to gross negligence or willful misconduct. (c) The license of a health care provider or a health care facility may not be suspended or revoked for the disclosure of information provided to the Registry pursuant to this chapter.
V.I. Code tit. 19, § 1257 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 19 - Health|Part V - Mental Health|Chapter 47 - Virgin Islands Central Cancer Registry Program|§ 1257. Penalties

 Any person who violates a reporting provision of this chapter or regulations or orders pertaining to the reporting of information to the Registry is subject to a civil fine of not less than $1,000 per case but not more than $5,000 per case. Before assessing the fine, the Commissioner of Health, or the Commissioner’s designee, shall conduct a hearing with the person or entity to ascertain the reason for noncompliance and determine if an adjustment in the fine is warranted. Funds collected pursuant to this subsection must be deposited in an account established by the Department of Health within the Department of Finance. The monies in this account must be used exclusively to assist in the funding of the Cancer Registry Program as prescribed by law.
V.I. Code tit. 19, § 1258 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 19 - Health|Part V - Mental Health|Chapter 47 - Virgin Islands Central Cancer Registry Program|§ 1258. Program funding

 The Registry must be funded through appropriations from the Legislature, federal agencies and through donations from private entities.
V.I. Code tit. 19, § 1259 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 19 - Health|Part V - Mental Health|Chapter 47 - Virgin Islands Central Cancer Registry Program|§ 1259. Annual report

 The Registry shall publish an annual statistical compilation that does not include identifying information showing the incidence of cancer in the Territory.
V.I. Code tit. 19, § 1262 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 19 - Health|Part V - Mental Health|Chapter 48 - Autoimmune Disease Registry|§ 1262. Establishment

 The Commissioner of the Department of Health shall establish a territory-wide autoimmune disease registry for the purpose of recording types of autoimmune diseases diagnosed or treated in the Virgin Islands and compiling necessary and appropriate information concerning those cases as determined by the Department of Health in order to conduct epidemiologic surveys of autoimmune diseases and to apply to appropriate preventive and control measures. The Department of Health shall adopt regulations and procedures as necessary to carry out the mandates of this chapter.
V.I. Code tit. 19, § 1263 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 19 - Health|Part V - Mental Health|Chapter 48 - Autoimmune Disease Registry|§ 1263. Reporting requirements

 Physicians, hospitals, health facilities, ambulatory outpatient surgical centers, and medical laboratories shall report to the Department of Health each confirmed case of autoimmune disease. The Department of Health shall, to the greatest extent possible, use the reported information in the development of the autoimmune disease registry established in section 1262.
V.I. Code tit. 19, § 1264 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 19 - Health|Part V - Mental Health|Chapter 48 - Autoimmune Disease Registry|§ 1264. Use of information and confidentiality

 All information reported or collected for the autoimmune disease registry pursuant to this chapter is for use by the Department of Health only, and the Department of Health shall be keep all individually identifiable health information confidential.
V.I. Code tit. 19, § 1265 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 19 - Health|Part V - Mental Health|Chapter 48 - Autoimmune Disease Registry|§ 1265. Access to information for conducting research

 The Department of Health shall grant any person or entity involved in a legitimate research activity access to information concerning autoimmune diseases obtained by the Department of Health under this chapter under the conditions that: (1) No individually identifiable health information is released by the Department of Health and adequate safeguards are put into place to ensure the protection of the identify of each patient whose records will be reviewed; (2) The person or entity conducting the research provides written information about: (A) The purpose of the research project; (B) The nature of the data to be collected and how the research intends to analyze the data; and (C) The records the researcher wishes to review; and (3) An agreement is executed between the Department of Health and the researcher that specifies the terms of the researcher’s use of the records and prohibits the release of any individually identifiable health information inadvertently disclosed by the Department of Health.
V.I. Code tit. 19, § 1266 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 19 - Health|Part V - Mental Health|Chapter 48 - Autoimmune Disease Registry|§ 1266. Release of confidential information

 The Department of Health may release confidential information concerning individual autoimmune disease patients to physicians and local health officers for diagnostic and treatment purposes if: (1) The patient’s attending physician gives oral or written consent to the release of the information; or (2) The patient gives written consent by completing a form authorizing the release of confidential medial information.
V.I. Code tit. 19, § 1267 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 19 - Health|Part V - Mental Health|Chapter 48 - Autoimmune Disease Registry|§ 1267. Annual report

 Not later than December 31 of each year, the Department of Health shall publish and make available to the public an annual report summarizing the information collected under this chapter during that calendar year.
V.I. Code tit. 19, § 1481a (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 19 - Health|Part VI - Regulatory Provisions Concerning Public Health|Chapter 53A - Smoking Ban|§ 1481a. Short title

 This Act may be cited as “The Virgin Islands Smoke-free Act” or “The Smoke-free Act”.
V.I. Code tit. 19, § 1483 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 19 - Health|Part VI - Regulatory Provisions Concerning Public Health|Chapter 53A - Smoking Ban|§ 1483. Prohibition

 (a) Except as provided in section 1484, smoking is prohibited in the Virgin Islands in: (1) enclosed areas of public places; (2) enclosed areas of places of employment; (3) any outdoor service or waiting line and in, and within twenty feet from any point of any service or waiting line; and (4) and within twenty feet of all outdoor public transportation stations and platform shelters opened to the public.
V.I. Code tit. 19, § 1484 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 19 - Health|Part VI - Regulatory Provisions Concerning Public Health|Chapter 53A - Smoking Ban|§ 1484. Exceptions

 (a) The prohibition in section 1483 is subject to the following exceptions: (1) Smoking is not prohibited in any private club as defined under section 1482, paragraph (6), or in any cigar factory, as defined in section 1482, paragraph (4) if no member is under 18 years old is present while any club member is smoking, and if the club and owners, lessors, lessees, occupants or persons in control or possession of any building or property being used by the club ensure that no smoke will infiltrate or migrate through walls, ceilings, floors, doors, windows, ventilation systems or other forms of openings into areas where smoking is prohibited under this section. (2) Smoking is not prohibited in any public or private parking lot unless the smoking occurs within twenty feet of any entrance, exit, window, ventilation system or other openings of any public place or place of employment subject to the prohibitions of section 1483; (3) Smoking is not prohibited on any public street or sidewalk unless the smoking occurs within twenty feet of any entrance, exit, window, ventilation system or other openings of any public place and place of employment subject to the prohibitions of section 1483; (4) Smoking is not prohibited in any private residence unless the private residence is used as a hospice, healthcare, daycare or adult care facility; (5) Smoking is not prohibited in any noncommercial vehicle; (6) Smoking is not prohibited in any area not commonly open to the public of owner-operated businesses having no employee other than the owner and where the sole purpose of the establishment is for smoking indoors if persons under the age of 18 years old are denied access; (7) Smoking is not prohibited in any retail tobacco store in which persons under the age 18 years old are denied access if the smoke from the retail tobacco store does not infiltrate or migrate into areas where smoking is prohibited under this chapter; (8) Smoking is not prohibited twenty feet from enclosed areas, as defined under section 1482, paragraph (4), on public parks and beaches, and twenty feet from tents, stalls, booths, stands and benches on public parks and beaches; (9) Smoking is not prohibited twenty feet from bleachers and grandstands for use by spectators at sporting and other public events; and (10) Smoking is not prohibited as prescribed under section 1489.
V.I. Code tit. 19, § 1485 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 19 - Health|Part VI - Regulatory Provisions Concerning Public Health|Chapter 53A - Smoking Ban|§ 1485. Prohibited condition of employment: smoking by employees outside the course of employment

 (a)  (1) This chapter may not be construed as allowing an employer or agent of an employer to require, as a condition of employment, that an employee or prospective employee refrain from smoking or using tobacco products outside the course the employee's employment, or to otherwise discriminate against an employee with respect to compensation, terms, conditions or privileges of employment for smoking or using tobacco products outside the course of employment. (2) This section does not apply to nonprofit employers or organizations whose primary purpose or objective is to discourage the use of tobacco products by the general public.
V.I. Code tit. 19, § 1486 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 19 - Health|Part VI - Regulatory Provisions Concerning Public Health|Chapter 53A - Smoking Ban|§ 1486. Posting of signs

 (a) No “smoking” signs or the international “no smoking” symbol consisting of a pictorial representation of a burning cigarette enclosed in a red circle with a red bar across it must be clearly and conspicuously posted at every entrance of and inside every public place and place of employment where smoking is prohibited under this chapter. All signs necessary to comply with this section must also contain the following sentence: “IT IS ILLEGAL TO SMOKE IN THIS ESTABLISHMENT”, and a contact number for the Department of Health to report violations. (b) Signs reading “SMOKING ALLOWED INSIDE” must be clearly and conspicuously posted at the entrance of cigar factories as defined in section 1482 of this chapter, and inside the facility prominently posted signs must be posted warning that smoking presents a health hazard, as stated by the United States Surgeon General.
V.I. Code tit. 19, § 1487 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 19 - Health|Part VI - Regulatory Provisions Concerning Public Health|Chapter 53A - Smoking Ban|§ 1487. Responsibilities of proprietors

 The proprietor shall take the following measures to prevent smoking in public places or places of employment. The proprietor shall: (1) Post signs in accordance with section 1486; (2) Remove matches, cigarette lighters and ashtrays from areas where smoking is prohibited; (3) Request of any person observed or believed to be smoking in an area where smoking is prohibited to refrain from smoking immediately and, if that person does not refrain from smoking after being asked to do so, the proprietor shall: (A) Ask the person to leave the premises or establishment; (B) Discontinue services to the person; and (C) If the person refuses to leave, manage the situation consistent with the exercise of lawful methods for preserving the peace or preventing the commission of an offense pursuant to 14 V.I.C. § 293.
V.I. Code tit. 19, § 1488 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 19 - Health|Part VI - Regulatory Provisions Concerning Public Health|Chapter 53A - Smoking Ban|§ 1488. Nonretaliation

 No employer may retaliate against an employee, applicant or customer for exercising any right provided by this chapter.
V.I. Code tit. 19, § 1489 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 19 - Health|Part VI - Regulatory Provisions Concerning Public Health|Chapter 53A - Smoking Ban|§ 1489. Intent

 (a)  (1) In any area or establishment where smoking is not prohibited, nothing in this chapter prohibits a proprietor of an establishment from voluntarily establishing nonsmoking portions or designating the entire establishment as smoke-free. (2) Nothing in this chapter prohibits proprietors of places of employment from providing an outdoor smoking space for their employees; except that any employer who provides an outdoor smoking area for the employees shall ensure that the smoking area is physically separated from the enclosed workplace so as to prevent the migration of smoke into the workplace through entrances, windows, ventilation systems, or any other openings. (3) Nothing in this chapter may be construed to require employers to provide break rooms for smokers or nonsmokers.
V.I. Code tit. 19, § 1493 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 19 - Health|Part VI - Regulatory Provisions Concerning Public Health|Chapter 53A - Smoking Ban|§ 1493. Private action

 (a)  (1) Any person may maintain an action for declaratory and equitable relief against a proprietor to restrain any violation of this chapter. On a prima facie showing of a violation of this chapter, the court shall grant preliminary equitable relief to restrain any further violation hereof. No bond is required for an action under this section. (2) Any person may maintain an action to compel the performance of any duty imposed on the Department of Health under this chapter, or imposed on the Department of Licensing and Consumer Affairs or on any department or agency of the Government of the Virgin Islands under this chapter, but no action may be brought unless the department or agency has first failed to perform such a duty for more than thirty days following receipt of a written notice specifying the duty the complainant alleged not to have been performed.