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V.I. Code tit. 3, § 1231 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 3 - Executive|Chapter 42 - Virgin Islands Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drug Control|§ 1231. Court clerks to send copies of convictions

 Upon the conviction of any person of the violation of any provision of this chapter, a certified copy of the judgment of conviction must be sent by the clerk of the court to the Director and to the board or officer, if any, by whom the convicted defendant has been licensed or registered to practice his profession or to carry on his business.
V.I. Code tit. 3, § 1232 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 3 - Executive|Chapter 42 - Virgin Islands Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drug Control|§ 1232. Records of registrants

 Persons registered to manufacture, distribute, or dispense controlled dangerous substances under this chapter shall keep records and maintain inventories in conformance with the record-keeping and inventory requirements of federal law and with the additional regulations the Director issues
V.I. Code tit. 3, § 1233 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 3 - Executive|Chapter 42 - Virgin Islands Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drug Control|§ 1233. Deputy Director; manner of selection; base salary

 (a) The Board of Directors of the Bureau may, upon recommendation of the Director, hire a Deputy Director who shall serve until removed for just cause as so determined by the Board. (b) The base salary for the Deputy Director must be between 85%-92% of the base salary for the Director.
V.I. Code tit. 3, § 1234 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 3 - Executive|Chapter 42 - Virgin Islands Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drug Control|§ 1234. Employees—agents and support staff

 (a) All former non-agent employees of the Virgin Islands Drug Enforcement Bureau who were transferred or assigned to other territorial law enforcement and government agencies and who currently are working in other territorial law enforcement and government agencies must, unless they otherwise express a contrary intent pursuant to section 1235 of this chapter, be reinstated into the Virgin Islands Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs Control. (b) Bureau staff positions must be consistent and compliant with personnel classification, regulations, and provisions of this Act.
V.I. Code tit. 3, § 1235 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 3 - Executive|Chapter 42 - Virgin Islands Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drug Control|§ 1235. Employee notification; declaration of intent

 The Government shall have 15 days after enactment of this chapter to notify in writing all employees that were transferred or assigned out of the Virgin Islands Drug Enforcement Bureau as to the reinstatement provisions of section 1234 and as to the employees' right to declare their intent to return to the agency or remain employed with the agency to which they are currently assigned. Such employees shall thereafter notify the Director of the V.I. Division of Personnel in writing within 15 days after their receipt of notice of their intent to remain in their current assignments or positions.
V.I. Code tit. 4, § 1 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 4 - Judiciary|Chapter 1 - Judicial Organization|§ 1. Judicial divisions

 Except as with respect to the Supreme Court the Territory of the Virgin Islands is divided into two judicial divisions: the division of Saint Croix, comprising the island of Saint Croix and adjacent islands and cays, and the division of Saint Thomas and Saint John, comprising the islands of Saint Thomas and Saint John and adjacent islands and cays. The division of Saint Croix is subdivided into two jurisdictions: the Christiansted jurisdiction comprising the town of Christiansted and the North Side B, King's, Queen's, Company's, East End A and East End B quarters of Saint Croix, Buck Island, and adjacent islets and cays, and the Frederiksted jurisdiction comprising the town of Frederiksted, and the North Side A, West End and Prince's quarters of Saint Croix and adjacent islets and cays.
V.I. Code tit. 4, § 2 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 4 - Judiciary|Chapter 1 - Judicial Organization|§ 2. Courts of the Territory

 (a) The judicial power of the Territory is vested in a court of general jurisdiction created by section 21 of the Revised Organic Act of the Virgin Islands, approved July 22, 1954, as amended, designated the “District Court of the Virgin Islands”, and in courts of local jurisdiction to be designated the “Superior Court of the Virgin Islands” and the court of last resort established pursuant to section 21(b) of the Revised Organic Act, “The Supreme Court of the Virgin Islands.” Each court is a court of record. (b) Nothing contained in this title may be construed to grant authority to the Governor of the Virgin Islands to remove the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Virgin Islands, or any justice of the Supreme Court during the justice’s term of office, or the Presiding Judge of the Superior Court of the Virgin Islands, or any judge of the Superior Court or magistrate judge of the Superior Court during the judge’s or magistrate judge’s term of office.
V.I. Code tit. 4, § 3 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 4 - Judiciary|Chapter 1 - Judicial Organization|§ 3. Consolidation of municipal courts into single court

 On and after March 1, 1965, the two municipal courts heretofore known as the Municipal Court of St. Croix and the Municipal Court of St. Thomas and St. John are consolidated into a single court which shall be designated “The Municipal Court of the Virgin Islands”, as provided by section 2 of this title.
V.I. Code tit. 4, § 5 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 4 - Judiciary|Chapter 1 - Judicial Organization|§ 5. Advisory committee

 (a) The Supreme Court shall establish an advisory committee to assist the Supreme Court, the Chief Justice, the Presiding Judge, the Superior Court, and the Administrative Office in exercising their administrative duties. The Chief Justice shall serve as chair of the advisory committee and the other members must include: the Presiding Judge of the Superior Court, another Superior Court judge and a magistrate judge both selected by the Presiding Judge of that court, and two Associate Justices of the Supreme Court selected by that Court or the Chief Justice. The Administrator of Courts and any other individuals designated by the advisory committee in its charter may serve as ex officio members who may attend meetings. (b) The advisory committee shall provide advice to the Chief Justice, the Supreme Court, the Presiding Judge, the Superior Court, and the Administrative Office with respect to the following areas: (1) development and implementation of system-wide administrative policies; (2) preparation of the judicial branch’s budget, including allocation of funds amongst the courts; (3) personnel management; (4) management of judicial records; (5) facilities management; (6) information technology; and (7) all other matters relating to the management of the Virgin Islands court system. (c) Nothing contained in this section may be construed directly or by implication to derogate or limit the powers conferred upon the Supreme Court, the Chief Justice, the Superior Court, the Presiding Judge of the Superior Court, or the judicial branch pursuant to their inherent powers or by virtue of any provision of the Revised Organic Act of the Virgin Islands or any statute or constitution of the Virgin Islands. Additionally, nothing in this section may be construed to abrogate the judicial independence of the Supreme or Superior Courts.
V.I. Code tit. 4, § 6 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 4 - Judiciary|Chapter 1 - Judicial Organization|§ 6. Judicial conferences

 The Chief Justice may call for judicial conferences to discuss any matter that affects the administration of the Virgin Islands judiciary. Every justice, judge, and magistrate judge of the Virgin Islands judiciary is entitled to attend the judicial conference. Non-judges, such as the Attorney General, clerks of court, and other stakeholders, may attend or address the judicial conference upon invitation of the Chief Justice.
V.I. Code tit. 4, § 72 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 4 - Judiciary|Chapter 5 - Superior Court|§ 72. Selection, appointment, qualifications and salaries of judges

 (a) The judges of the Superior Court shall be appointed by the Governor with the advice and consent of the Legislature. Judges so appointed shall continue in office until their successors are appointed and confirmed or until they are renominated and confirmed, but in no event shall judges remain in office more than 180 days after the expiration of their terms unless they have been renominated and confirmed. (b) To be eligible for nomination for appointment as a judge of the Superior Court, a person must be a member in good standing of the Virgin Islands Bar and shall have been engaged in the active practice of law for not less than five years immediately prior to his nomination, of which not less than three years shall have been in the Virgin Islands and for appointment as a judge in the Family Court Division, the person must also meet the qualifications established in section 171(c). (c) The judges of the Superior Court shall be officers of the Government of the Virgin Islands and each shall receive a salary of not less than $35,000 per annum, except that the presiding judge shall receive a salary of not less than $37,500 per annum. No judge's compensation shall be reduced during his term of office without his consent.
V.I. Code tit. 4, § 72b (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 4 - Judiciary|Chapter 5 - Superior Court|§ 72b. General powers and duties of presiding judge; designation of judges and division of business

 (a) The presiding judge of the Superior Court shall be the administrative head of the Superior Court and shall preside at all sessions of the court which he attends. He shall be responsible for the observance by the court of the rules adopted by the Supreme court governing the practice and procedure of the Superior Court and prescribing the duties of its judges and officers and the times and places of holding court. In conformity with such rules and sections 3, 4, 5, 6, 31, and 32 of this title he shall from time to time designate the judges who are to sit in each judicial division and divide the business in such manner as will secure the prompt dispatch of the business of the court and equalize the case loads of the several judges, taking into consideration the time required by those judges and magistrate judges who have been designated to serve as Supreme Court designated justice to perform their duties as such. He shall supervise and direct the officers and employees of the court in the performance of their duties. He shall also supervise and direct the officers and employees of the Office of the Marshal of the Superior Court in the performance of their duties subject to sections 4, 31, and 32 of this title. (b) Deleted. (c) Deleted. (d) Deleted.
V.I. Code tit. 4, § 73 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 4 - Judiciary|Chapter 5 - Superior Court|§ 73. Tenure of judges

 The judges of the Superior Court shall hold their offices for a term of six years unless sooner retired or removed in accordance with the provisions of this title.
V.I. Code tit. 4, § 74a (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 4 - Judiciary|Chapter 5 - Superior Court|§ 74a. Utilization of retired judges

 Pursuant to detailed court rules promulgated by the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, former judges of the Courts of the Virgin Islands not actively engaged in the practice of law before the Superior Court may be utilized as “Senior Sitting Judges” in the Superior Court. The compensation to be paid said former judges shall be on a per diem basis, not to exceed the salary of a Superior Court Judge. Utilization of a retired judge hereunder shall in no way interrupt or interfere with the continued payment of said judges retirement annuity under Title 3, chapter 27 of the Code.
V.I. Code tit. 4, § 75 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 4 - Judiciary|Chapter 5 - Superior Court|§ 75. Exclusive jurisdiction

 The Superior Court shall have original, exclusive jurisdiction— (1) of all civil actions wherein the matter in controversy does not exceed the sum or value of $500, exclusive of interest and costs; (2) of all criminal cases wherein the maximum punishment that may be imposed does not exceed a fine of $100 or imprisonment of six (6) months, or both: (3) of all violations of police and executive regulations, unless otherwise provided by law; and (4) where otherwise provided by law.
V.I. Code tit. 4, § 76 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 4 - Judiciary|Chapter 5 - Superior Court|§ 76. Original jurisdiction

 (a) Subject to the original jurisdiction conferred on the District Court by section 22 of the Revised Organic Act of 1954, as amended, effective October 1, 1991, the Superior Court shall have original jurisdiction in all civil actions regardless of the amount in controversy; to supervise and administer estates and fiduciary relations; to appoint and supervise guardians and trustees; to hear and determine juvenile, divorce, annulment and separation proceedings; to grant adoptions and changes of name; to establish paternity; to legitimize children and to make orders and decrees pertaining to the support of relations. (b) Subject to the concurrent jurisdiction conferred on the District Court of the Virgin Islands by sections 21 and 22 of the Revised Organic Act of the Virgin Islands, as amended, the Superior Court shall have original jurisdiction in all criminal actions.
V.I. Code tit. 4, § 77 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 4 - Judiciary|Chapter 5 - Superior Court|§ 77. Civil actions to be tried in superior court; transfers

 (a) Unless transferred by a judge of the district court, all civil cases originally filed in the Superior Court shall be tried and concluded in that court. (b) A judge of the district court may, in the interest of justice, cause a case or cases pending in the Superior Court to be transferred to the district court and may transfer cases pending in the district court to the Superior Court provided that such transferred case is within the jurisdictional competence of the court to which the transfer is made.
V.I. Code tit. 4, § 78 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 4 - Judiciary|Chapter 5 - Superior Court|§ 78. Venue

 (a) All civil actions shall be initiated in the judicial division where the defendant resides or where the cause of action arose or where the defendant may be served with process. Criminal actions shall be brought in the judicial division in which the alleged criminal offense was committed. Actions of criminal conspiracy may be brought in either division in which any of the alleged overt acts were committed. (b) For the convenience of parties and witnesses and in the interest of justice, a judge of the Superior Court may, with the approval of the presiding judge of such court, transfer any action or proceeding pending in one judicial division to the other judicial division for hearing and determination.
V.I. Code tit. 4, § 79 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 4 - Judiciary|Chapter 5 - Superior Court|§ 79. Divisions of the court

 (a) The Superior Court shall be comprised of criminal, civil, traffic, family, magistrate judge's, conciliation and small claims divisions. The court may create such additional divisions as the public interest requires. The presiding judge shall from time to time designate and assign judges to sit in the various divisions of the court in each of the judicial divisions of the Territory as the business of the court may require. (b) Deleted. (c) There is established as a division within the Superior Court, the Territorial Probation Office. At the head of the Territorial Probation Office, there shall be a Chief Probation Officer who shall administer the Office, subject to the supervision, control, and direction of the Presiding Judge. There shall be such Deputy Chief Probation Officers and such other officers as the Presiding Judge of the Superior Court deems necessary for the proper administration and performance of duties and functions.
V.I. Code tit. 4, § 80 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 4 - Judiciary|Chapter 5 - Superior Court|§ 80. Jury trials

 Commencing two years from the effective date of the revision of this chapter in the year 1977, in all cases in which the parties are entitled to a trial by jury and in which a jury trial is properly demanded, the action shall be tried to a jury composed by six members unless the parties agree, with the consent of the court, upon a lesser number provided, however, that in criminal actions involving alleged felonies, the accused shall be entitled to a jury composed of twelve members.
V.I. Code tit. 4, § 81 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 4 - Judiciary|Chapter 5 - Superior Court|§ 81. Jurors; selection and compensation

 (a) The names of prospective jurors shall be drawn from the master jury wheel maintained by the court under a Plan for Random Selection of Jurors, similar to the plan embodied in Part IV of the Rules of the District Court, in such manner and at such times as shall be determined by the presiding judge of the Superior Court. (b) Jurors shall be paid for each day of active service a fee equal to that paid to jurors in the district court pursuant to section 482 of this title.
V.I. Code tit. 4, § 82 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 4 - Judiciary|Chapter 5 - Superior Court|§ 82. Process

 (a) The process of the Superior Court runs throughout the territory. (b) Service of all process shall be made in any part of the territory by the Virgin Islands marshal and probation officer of the Superior Court and such other persons as may be authorized by law to serve such process, or such other officers or persons as may be designated by the court. The persons so designated shall receive in payment for their services not less than the statutory fees allowed therefor. (c) Summonses, complaints and subpoenas shall be served in the same manner as summonses are required to be served by Rule 4 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure. (d) Where the law, or the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, does not specifically require process to be served by an officer of the court, process may be directed to and served by a disinterested person named therein. The person so authorized shall be sworn to the truth of the return. A certificate of the oath shall be endorsed upon the writ or process by the authority administering the same. When the service of a summons, complaint or subpoena is made for any party by a person specially authorized to do so, fees for such service shall not be recoverable from or taxed against the opposite party in excess of the taxable fees of the Virgin Islands marshal and probation officer of the Superior Court, had such process been served by a marshal.
V.I. Code tit. 4, § 83 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 4 - Judiciary|Chapter 5 - Superior Court|§ 83. Procedure; rules and writs

 The practice and procedure in the Superior court shall be as prescribed by rules adopted by the Supreme Court. Subject to the approval of the Supreme Court, the Superior Court may from time to time prescribe rules for the conduct of its business consistent with law and with the rules prescribed by the Supreme Court and may issue all writs and make all orders necessary or appropriate in aid of its jurisdiction and agreeable to the usages and principles of law.
V.I. Code tit. 4, § 84 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 4 - Judiciary|Chapter 5 - Superior Court|§ 84. Sessions

 The Superior Court shall hold regular sessions in each judicial division at the times and places prescribed by the rules of the court. Special sessions may be held at such times and places as may be required.
V.I. Code tit. 4, § 85 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 4 - Judiciary|Chapter 5 - Superior Court|§ 85. Prosecution by the Attorney General

 Except as otherwise provided by law, the Attorney General of the Virgin Islands shall prosecute all offenses and conduct all legal proceedings on behalf of the Government of the Virgin Islands in the Superior Court.
V.I. Code tit. 4, § 86 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 4 - Judiciary|Chapter 5 - Superior Court|§ 86. Clerk; reporters

 The presiding judge of the Superior court shall appoint a clerk for the Superior Court of the Virgin Islands. The clerk shall, subject to provisions of sections 4, 5, 6, 31, and 32 of this title, appoint a chief deputy clerk for each judicial division of the court. The clerk, subject to provisions of sections 4, 5, 6, 31, and 32 of this title, may appoint other necessary deputies and employees. The Superior Court shall appoint a sufficient number of court reporters. The office of the clerk of the Superior Court shall be maintained at Charlotte Amalie and the office of the chief deputy clerk, division of St. Croix, shall be maintained at Christiansted with an additional office, in the charge of a deputy clerk under the chief deputy clerk's supervision, at Frederiksted.
V.I. Code tit. 4, § 87 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 4 - Judiciary|Chapter 5 - Superior Court|§ 87. Microfilming; preservation; destruction of original records

 (a) The Superior Court is hereby authorized to microfilm in duplicate all original records, files and documents, with the exception of traffic tickets, maintained pursuant to its judicial function. All such original records, files and documents shall be retained until reproduced by microphotographic process, and thereafter may be destroyed, provided that no records, files or documents less than one year old shall be subject to destruction. Traffic tickets which have either been paid or dismissed may also be destroyed by order of the Presiding Judge, notwithstanding the fact that the microfilming of same is not authorized by law. (b) One duplicate original of each of the aforesaid microphotographed writings shall be retained by the Court in the Judicial Division where such writings were originally filed and the other duplicate original shall be forwarded to the archives of the Government of the Virgin Islands for preservation and safekeeping. Upon transmission to the archives, the microphotographed writings of the Superior Court shall be subject to the same restrictions and prohibitions as they would have been if custody was retained in the Superior Court. (c) Microphotographs of records made in compliance with this section shall have the same effect as the original and shall be treated as originals for the purpose of their admissibility in evidence. Certified or authenticated reproductions of the microphotographs shall be admitted in evidence equally with the original microphotographs.
V.I. Code tit. 4, § 88 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 4 - Judiciary|Chapter 5 - Superior Court|§ 88. Leaves of absence for study with compensation; limitations

 (a) The Chief Justice of the Supreme Court may grant study leave to personnel of the judicial branch for the purpose of pursuing advanced training courses and programs within or outside the Virgin Islands. (b) Such study leave shall be implemented consistent with the terms and conditions of subchapter XI of chapter 25, Title 3, Virgin Islands Code.
V.I. Code tit. 4, § 111 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 4 - Judiciary|Chapter 7 - Small Claims Division of Superior Court|§ 111. Small claims division

 There is in the Superior Court a small claims division, in which the procedure shall be as informal and summary as is consistent with justice.