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V.I. Code tit. 11, § 112 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 11 - Commerce, Technology and Trade|Chapter 1 - Uniform Electronic Transactions Act|§ 112. Retention of electronic records; originals

 (a) If a law requires that a record be retained, the requirement is satisfied by retaining an electronic record of the information in the record which: (1) accurately reflects the information set forth in the record after it was first generated in its final form as an electronic record or otherwise; and (2) remains accessible for later reference. (b) A requirement to retain a record in accordance with subsection (a) does not apply to any information the sole purpose of which is to enable the record to be sent, communicated, or received. (c) A person may satisfy subsection (a) by using the services of another person if the requirements of that subsection are satisfied. (d) If a law requires a record to be presented or retained in its original form, or provides consequences if the record is not presented or retained in its original form, that law is satisfied by an electronic record retained in accordance with subsection (a). (e) If a law requires retention of a check, that requirement is satisfied by retention of an electronic record of the information on the front and back of the check in accordance with subsection (a). (f) A record retained as an electronic record in accordance with subsection (a) satisfies a law requiring a person to retain a record for evidentiary, audit, or like purposes, unless a law enacted after the effective date of this chapter specifically prohibits the use of an electronic record for the specified purpose. (g) This section does not preclude a governmental agency of this State from specifying additional requirements far the retention of a record subject to the agency's jurisdiction.
V.I. Code tit. 11, § 113 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 11 - Commerce, Technology and Trade|Chapter 1 - Uniform Electronic Transactions Act|§ 113. Admissibility in evidence

 In a proceeding, evidence of a record or signature may not be excluded solely because it is in electronic form.
V.I. Code tit. 11, § 114 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 11 - Commerce, Technology and Trade|Chapter 1 - Uniform Electronic Transactions Act|§ 114. Automated transaction

 In an automated transaction, the following rules apply: (1) A contract may be formed by the interaction of electronic agents of the parties, even if no individual was aware of or reviewed the electronic agents' actions or the resulting terms and agreements. (2) A contract may be formed by the interaction of an electronic agent and an individual, acting on the individual's own behalf or for another person, including by an interaction in which the individual performs actions that the individual is free to refuse to perform and which the individual knows or has reason to know will cause the electronic agent to complete the transaction or performance. (3) The terms of the contract are determined by the substantive law applicable to it.
V.I. Code tit. 11, § 115 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 11 - Commerce, Technology and Trade|Chapter 1 - Uniform Electronic Transactions Act|§ 115. Time and place of sending and receipt

 (a) Unless otherwise agreed between the sender and the recipient, an electronic record is sent when it: (1) is addressed properly or otherwise directed properly to an information processing system that the recipient has designated or uses for the purpose of receiving electronic records or information of the type sent and from which the recipient is able to retrieve the electronic record; (2) is in a form capable of being processed by that system; and (3) enters an information processing system outside the control of the sender or of a person that sent the electronic record on behalf of the sender or enters a region of the information processing system designated or used by the recipient which is under the control of the recipient. (b) Unless otherwise agreed between a sender and the recipient, an electronic record is received when: (1) it enters an information processing system that the recipient has designated or uses for the purpose of receiving electronic records or information of the type sent and from which the recipient is able to retrieve the electronic record; and (2) it is in a form capable of being processed by that system. (c) Subsection (b) applies even if the place the information processing system is located is different from the place the electronic record is deemed to be received under subsection (d). (d) Unless otherwise expressly provided in the electronic record or agreed between the sender and the recipient, an electronic record is deemed to be sent from the sender's place of business and to be received at the recipient's place of business. For purposes of this subsection, the following rules apply: (1) If the sender or recipient has more than one place of business, the place of business of that person is the place having the closest relationship to the underlying transaction. (2) If the sender or the recipient does not have a place of business, the place of business is the sender's or recipient's residence, as the case may be. (e) An electronic record is received under subsection (b) even if no individual is aware of its receipt. (f) Receipt of an electronic acknowledgment from an information processing system described in subsection (b) establishes that a record was received but, by itself, does not establish that the content sent corresponds to the content received. (g) If a person is aware that an electronic record purportedly sent under subsection (a), or purportedly received under subsection (b), was not actually sent or received, the legal effect of the sending or receipt is determined by other applicable law. Except to the extent permitted by the other law, the requirements of this subsection may not be varied by agreement.
V.I. Code tit. 11, § 117 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 11 - Commerce, Technology and Trade|Chapter 1 - Uniform Electronic Transactions Act|§ 117. Creation and retention of electronic records and conversion of written records by government agencies

 Each governmental agency, department and independent instrumentality of the Government of the Virgin Islands may determine whether, and the extent to which, it will create and retain electronic records and convert written records to electronic records.
V.I. Code tit. 11, § 118 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 11 - Commerce, Technology and Trade|Chapter 1 - Uniform Electronic Transactions Act|§ 118. Acceptance and distribution of electronic records by governmental agencies

 (a) Except as otherwise provided in section 112(f), each governmental agency, department and independent instrumentality of the Government of the Virgin Islands shall determine whether, and the extent to which, it will send and accept electronic records and electronic signatures to and from other persons and otherwise create, generate, communicate, store, process, use, and rely upon electronic records and electronic signatures. (b) To the extent that a governmental agency uses electronic records and electronic signatures under subsection (a), the governmental agency, department and independent instrumentality of the Government of the Virgin Islands, giving due consideration to security, may specify: (1) the manner and format in which the electronic records must be created, generated, sent, communicated, received, and stored and the systems established for those purposes; (2) if electronic records must be signed by electronic means, the type of electronic signature required, the manner and format in which the electronic signature must be affixed to the electronic record, and the identity of, or criteria that must be met by, any third party used by a person filing a document to facilitate the process; (3) control processes and procedures as appropriate to ensure adequate preservation, disposition, integrity, security, confidentiality, and auditability of electronic records; and (4) any other required attributes for electronic records which are specified for corresponding nonelectronic records or reasonably necessary under the circumstances. (c) Except as otherwise provided in section 112(f), this chapter does not require a governmental agency of this State to use or permit the use of electronic records or electronic signatures.
V.I. Code tit. 11, § 119 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 11 - Commerce, Technology and Trade|Chapter 1 - Uniform Electronic Transactions Act|§ 119. Interoperability

 The governmental agency, department and independent instrumentality of the Government of the Virgin Islands which adopts standards pursuant to section 118 may encourage and promote consistency and interoperability with similar requirements adopted by other governmental agencies, departments and independent instrumentalities of the Government of the Virgin Islands and other States and the federal government and nongovernmental persons interacting with governmental agencies of this State. If appropriate, those standards may specify differing levels of standards from which governmental agencies, departments and independent instrumentalities of the Government of the Virgin Islands may choose in implementing the most appropriate standard for a particular application.
V.I. Code tit. 11, § 120 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 11 - Commerce, Technology and Trade|Chapter 1 - Uniform Electronic Transactions Act|§ 120. Severability clause

 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 chapter are severable.
V.I. Code tit. 11, § 921 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 11 - Commerce, Technology and Trade|Chapter 13 - Business Records|§ 921. Business records to be kept

 Every person engaged in trade who holds a license for which the initial fee of $25 or more is paid shall keep a daybook and a ledger, in which he shall record his business transactions.
V.I. Code tit. 11, § 922 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 11 - Commerce, Technology and Trade|Chapter 13 - Business Records|§ 922. Failure to keep business records; penalty

 If any trader as classified in section 921 of this title is found without the books required by such section, or fails to record his business transactions therein, he shall be fined not more than $50.
V.I. Code tit. 11, § 952 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 11 - Commerce, Technology and Trade|Chapter 15 - Interest and Usury|§ 952. Usury

 No person shall, directly or indirectly, receive in money, goods, or things in action, or in any other manner, any greater sum or value for the loan or use of money, or upon contract founded upon any bargain, sale or loan of wares, merchandise, goods, chattels, lands and tenements, than prescribed in this chapter.
V.I. Code tit. 11, § 953 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 11 - Commerce, Technology and Trade|Chapter 15 - Interest and Usury|§ 953. Usury; borrower's right to collect double damage

 If usurious interest, as defined by sections 951 and 952 of this title, shall be received or collected, the person or persons paying the same, or their legal representatives, may by an action brought within two years after such payment, receive from the person, firm, or corporation, having received the same, double the amount of the interest so received or collected.
V.I. Code tit. 11, § 954 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 11 - Commerce, Technology and Trade|Chapter 15 - Interest and Usury|§ 954. Forfeiture of interest

 If it is ascertained in any action brought on any contract, that a rate of interest has been contracted for greater than is authorized by this chapter, whether directly or indirectly, in money, property, or other valuable thing, or that any gift or donation of money, property, or other valuable thing has been made or promised to be made to a lender or creditor, or to any person for him, the design of which is to obtain for money loaned or for debts due or to become due, a rate of interest greater than that specified by the provisions of this chapter, the same shall be usurious and shall work a forfeiture of the entire interest on the debt. The court before which such action is prosecuted shall render judgment for the amount due on the sum loaned or the debt contracted, without interest, against the defendant, and for the costs of the action, against the plaintiff, whether such action is contested or not.
V.I. Code tit. 11, § 955 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 11 - Commerce, Technology and Trade|Chapter 15 - Interest and Usury|§ 955. Rights of assignee of usurious contract

 Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to prevent a bona fide assignee of any usurious contract, who had no notice of the usury affecting the contract, from recovering against his immediate assignor, or the original usurer, the full amount paid by him for such contract.
V.I. Code tit. 11, § 956 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 11 - Commerce, Technology and Trade|Chapter 15 - Interest and Usury|§ 956. Usury; effect of agreement to pay taxes

 (a) All contracts made and entered into by and between the borrower and lender, debtor and creditor or mortgagor and mortgagee, on which the rate of interest is six per centum or under, wherein one party agrees to pay the taxes on the debt, credit, or mortgage existing or entered into between such parties, are legal and valid and shall not be deemed or taken to be usurious. (b) All contracts of the type described in subsection (a) of this section may be enforced by the parties thereto.
V.I. Code tit. 11, § 957 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 11 - Commerce, Technology and Trade|Chapter 15 - Interest and Usury|§ 957. Legal rate of interest on credit cards

 Notwithstanding any other provisions of law to the contrary, the rate of interest charged by a “card issuer” of a “credit card”, as such terms are defined by 15 U.S.C., § 1602, shall be governed by laws of the state of incorporation of the card issuer.
V.I. Code tit. 11, § 958 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 11 - Commerce, Technology and Trade|Chapter 15 - Interest and Usury|§ 958. Defenses in court

 Notwithstanding section 951 of this chapter, no corporation, general partnership, limited partnership, limited liability partnership, limited liability company, or any other business entity, however formed, may plead any law against usury, including any restriction or prohibition of prepayment penalties or other fees and charges under this chapter, in any court as a defense in any action instituted to enforce the payment of any bond, note or other evidence of indebtedness issued or assumed by the entity.
V.I. Code tit. 11, § 1001 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 11 - Commerce, Technology and Trade|Chapter 16 - Uniform Trade Secrets Act|§ 1001. Short title

 This chapter may be cited as the Uniform Trade Secrets Act.
V.I. Code tit. 11, § 1002 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 11 - Commerce, Technology and Trade|Chapter 16 - Uniform Trade Secrets Act|§ 1002. Definitions

 As used in this chapter, unless the context requires otherwise: (a) “Improper means” includes theft, bribery, misrepresentation, breach or inducement of a breach of a duty to maintain secrecy, or espionage through electronic or other means; (b) “Misappropriation” means: (1) acquisition of a trade secret of another by a person who knows or has reason to know that the trade secret was acquired by improper means; or (2) disclosure or use of a trade secret of another without express or implied consent by a person who: (A) used improper means to acquire knowledge of the trade secret; or (B) at the time of disclosure or use, knew or had reason to know that his knowledge of the trade secret was (i) derived from or through a person who had utilized improper means to acquire it; (ii) acquired under circumstances giving rise to a duty to maintain its secrecy or limit its use; or (iii) derived from or through a person who owed a duty to the person seeking relief to maintain its secrecy or limit its use; or (C) before a material change of his [or her] position, knew or had reason to know that it was a trade secret and that knowledge of it had been acquired by accident or mistake. (c) “Person” means a natural person, corporation, business trust, estate, trust, partnership, association, joint venture, government, governmental subdivision or agency, or any other legal or commercial entity. (d) “Trade secret” means information, including a formula, pattern, compilation, program, device, method, technique, or process, that: (1) derives independent economic value, actual or potential, from not being generally known to, and not being readily ascertainable by proper means by, other persons who can obtain economic value from its disclosure or use, and (2) is the subject of efforts that are reasonable under the circumstances to maintain its secrecy.
V.I. Code tit. 11, § 1003 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 11 - Commerce, Technology and Trade|Chapter 16 - Uniform Trade Secrets Act|§ 1003. Injunctive relief

 (a) Actual or threatened misappropriation may be enjoined. Upon application to the court, an injunction shall be terminated when the trade secret has ceased to exist, but the injunction may be continued for an additional reasonable period of time in order to eliminate commercial advantage that otherwise would be derived from the misappropriation. (b) In exceptional circumstances, an injunction may condition future use upon payment of a reasonable royalty for no longer than the period of time for which use could have been prohibited. Exceptional circumstances include, but are not limited to, a material and prejudicial change of position prior to acquiring knowledge or reason to know of misappropriation that renders a prohibitive injunction inequitable. (c) In appropriate circumstances, affirmative acts to protect a trade secret may be compelled by court order.
V.I. Code tit. 11, § 1004 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 11 - Commerce, Technology and Trade|Chapter 16 - Uniform Trade Secrets Act|§ 1004. Damages

 (a) Except to the extent that a material and prejudicial change of position prior to acquiring knowledge or reason to know of misappropriation renders a monetary recovery inequitable, a complainant is entitled to recover damages for misappropriation. Damages can include both the actual loss caused by misappropriation and the unjust enrichment caused by misappropriation that is not taken into account in computing actual loss. In lieu of damages measured by any other methods, the damages caused by misappropriation may be measured by imposition of liability for a reasonable royalty for a misappropriator's unauthorized disclosure or use of a trade secret. (b) If willful and malicious misappropriation exists, the court may award exemplary damages in an amount not exceeding twice any award made under subsection (a).
V.I. Code tit. 11, § 1005 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 11 - Commerce, Technology and Trade|Chapter 16 - Uniform Trade Secrets Act|§ 1005. Attorney's fees

 If (1) a claim of misappropriation is made in bad faith, (2) a motion to terminate an injunction is made or resisted in bad faith, or (3) willful and malicious misappropriation exists, the court may award reasonable attorney's fees to the prevailing party.
V.I. Code tit. 11, § 1006 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 11 - Commerce, Technology and Trade|Chapter 16 - Uniform Trade Secrets Act|§ 1006. Preservation of secrecy

 In an action under this chapter, a court shall preserve the secrecy of an alleged trade secret by reasonable means, which may include granting protective orders in connection with discovery proceedings, holding in-camera hearings, sealing the records of the action, and ordering any person involved in the litigation not to disclose an alleged trade secret without prior court approval.
V.I. Code tit. 11, § 1007 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 11 - Commerce, Technology and Trade|Chapter 16 - Uniform Trade Secrets Act|§ 1007. Statute of limitations

 An action for misappropriation must be brought within 3 years after the misappropriation is discovered or by the exercise of reasonable diligence should have been discovered. For the purposes of this section, a continuing misappropriation constitutes a single claim.
V.I. Code tit. 11, § 1008 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 11 - Commerce, Technology and Trade|Chapter 16 - Uniform Trade Secrets Act|§ 1008. Effect of other law

 (a) Except as provided in subsection (b), this chapter displaces conflicting tort, restitutionary, and other law of this State providing civil remedies for misappropriation of a trade secret. (b) This chapter does not affect: (1) contractual remedies, whether or not based upon misappropriation of a trade secret; (2) other civil remedies that are not based upon misappropriation of a trade secret; or (3) criminal remedies, whether or not based upon misappropriation of a trade secret.
V.I. Code tit. 11, § 1009 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 11 - Commerce, Technology and Trade|Chapter 16 - Uniform Trade Secrets Act|§ 1009. Uniformity of application and construction

 This chapter shall be applied and construed to effectuate its general purpose to make uniform the law with respect to the subject of this chapter among states enacting it.
V.I. Code tit. 11, § 1010 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 11 - Commerce, Technology and Trade|Chapter 16 - Uniform Trade Secrets Act|§ 1010. Severability

 If any provision of this chapter or its application to any person or circumstances is held invalid, the invalidity does not affect other provisions or applications of the chapter which can be given effect without the invalid provision or application, and to this end the provisions of this chapter are severable.
V.I. Code tit. 11, § 1201 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 11 - Commerce, Technology and Trade|Chapter 21 - Trade Names|§ 1201. Registration of business name by person, partnerships and associations

 A person doing business in the United States Virgin Islands under any name other than his own, and every copartnership or association of individuals, except corporations, doing business in the United States Virgin Islands, resident or nonresident, shall file in the office of the Lieutenant Governor a certificate setting forth the designation, name or style under which said business is to be conducted, the location of such business, a brief description of the kind of business to be transacted under such name, and the true and real name or names of the party or parties conducting or intending to conduct same, or having an interest therein, together with the post-office address or addresses of said person or persons. Such certificate shall be executed and acknowledged by the party or parties conducting or intending to conduct said business, or having an interest therein, before an officer authorized by the laws of the United States Virgin Islands to authenticate signatures, and shall be filed within five days prior to the commencement of business.
V.I. Code tit. 11, § 1202 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 11 - Commerce, Technology and Trade|Chapter 21 - Trade Names|§ 1202. Registration by legal representative of decedent

 If a person who was required by the provisions of section 1201 of this title to register with the office of the Lieutenant Governor fails to do so and dies, the legal representative of such deceased person may register under such section in the name of the estate of such decedent. Such registration shall be sufficient for all purposes under the provisions of this chapter.