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V.I. Code tit. 17, § 1003 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 17 - Education|Chapter 45 - National Guard Youth Challenge Program|§ 1003. Participation

 Participation in the Youth Challenge Program is on a voluntary basis. No person may be sentenced by any court to participate in the program; however, a youth court Judge may recommend the program to a child when, under the court's determination, such a program would be sufficient to meet the needs of the child.
V.I. Code tit. 17, § 1004 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 17 - Education|Chapter 45 - National Guard Youth Challenge Program|§ 1004. High school diploma and certificate of attendance

 (a) The Virgin Islands National Guard under the auspices of the Challenge Academy, may award an adult high school diploma to each participant who meets the requirements for a general equivalency diploma (GED) under the policies and guidelines of the GED Testing Services of the American Council on Education and any other minimum academic requirements prescribed by the National Guard and Challenge Academy for graduation from the Youth Challenge Program. (b) Participants in the program who do not meet the minimum academic requirements may be awarded a special certificate of attendance. (c) The National Guard and the Challenge Academy, in consultation with the Virgin Islands Board of Education, shall establish rules and regulations for awarding the adult high school diploma and shall prescribe the form for such diploma and the certificate of attendance.
V.I. Code tit. 17, § 1005 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 17 - Education|Chapter 45 - National Guard Youth Challenge Program|§ 1005. Funding

 The Virgin Islands National Guard may accept any available funds that may be used to defray the expenses of the Program, including, but not limited to, federal funding, public or private funds and any funds that may be appropriated by the Legislature for that purpose.
V.I. Code tit. 17, § 1006 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 17 - Education|Chapter 45 - National Guard Youth Challenge Program|§ 1006. Annual report

 The Virgin Islands National Guard shall make an annual report to the Governor and the Legislature on the Youth Challenge Program including, but not limited to, the number of applicants to the program by district, race and sex, the number of applicants accepted, the number of applicants rejected, the number of persons completing the program, the number of GEDs awarded, the number of certificates awarded and data regarding sources of funding, employees and expenditures.
V.I. Code tit. 18, § 2 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 18 - Elections|Chapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 2. Eligibility of government personnel for public office

 Persons employed in the legislative, executive or judicial branches of the Government of the United States Virgin Islands shall be eligible for nomination as candidates for public office but any such person who becomes a candidate for public office shall be granted and shall take a leave of absence from his governmental duties from the date of the filing of his nomination petition or paper until the date of the ensuing general election, unless the person is a candidate at a primary election who fails to be nominated, in which case the person's leave of absence may terminate immediately after the primary. Persons becoming candidates may use accrued annual leave in taking such leave of absence. Persons who have no accrued annual leave shall take leave without pay but without prejudice to seniority or other employment rights. This section does not apply to Government employees who become candidates for party offices or serve as party officers, to candidates for the Board of Education, or candidates for the Board of Elections for the Virgin Islands, as provided for under section 41 of chapter 3 of this title, except that no employee or official of the office of the Supervisor of Elections and no employee of a Board of Elections may be a candidate for a Board of Elections without taking leave as required by this section, and if elected, may not serve as an employee or official, as the case may be, during his incumbency. Persons becoming candidates may use accrued or accumulated annual leave or sick leave in taking such leave of absence, however, sick leave may not be used in the absence of such certification of sickness as is required by the Government pursuant to Title 3, section 583, subsection (b) of the Code. Persons taking such leave of absence who have no accrued or accumulated annual leave shall do so without pay but without prejudice to seniority or other employment rights. This section shall not apply to Government employees becoming candidates for party offices or serving as party officers, to candidates for the Virgin Islands Board of Education, as provided for under section 97 of Title 3 of the Virgin Islands Code, or candidates for the Board of Elections for the Virgin Islands, as provided for under section 41 of Title 18 of such Code, except that no employee or official of the Department of Education and no employee of the Board of Education may be a candidate for the Board of Education and no employee or official of the office of the Supervisor of Elections and no employee of a board of election may be a candidate for a board of elections without taking leave as required by this section; and if elected may not serve as an employee or official, as the case may be during his incumbency. No member of a Board of Elections may be a candidate for any other public office during the term for which the member was elected. Any member of a Board of Election must resign his position on the board as a condition of seeking any other public office.
V.I. Code tit. 18, § 3 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 18 - Elections|Chapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 3. Election days as legal holidays; time off to vote; acts done on Sundays or other legal holidays

 (a) The day on which general elections are held shall be a legal holiday in the Virgin Islands, while all primary elections shall be held on a Saturday. All employees who are required to work on those days shall be entitled to two hours off from their jobs without loss of pay to vote in all primaries and elections, provided that they notify their employers before such primaries or elections of their intention to be absent for the purpose of voting. (b) No part of any day fixed for the performance of any duties by any person or official under this title shall be deemed a Sunday or other legal holiday so as to affect the legality of any work done for the purpose of carrying out the provisions of this title, or the right of any person to any compensation herein provided for rendering any service required hereby, or so as to relieve any person from doing on such day whatever is necessary for such purposes, and such services are hereby declared to be necessary public services.
V.I. Code tit. 18, § 5 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 18 - Elections|Chapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 5. Publication of notices

 Notwithstanding any other provision of this title, all public notices required by the provisions of this title shall be published in all local newspapers of general circulation in the Virgin Islands.
V.I. Code tit. 18, § 6 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 18 - Elections|Chapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 6. Amendment during election year

 No amendments to this title shall be enacted by the Legislature in the period of six (6) months immediately preceding the date of a general election except in compliance with an order issued by a court of competent jurisdiction.
V.I. Code tit. 18, § 7 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 18 - Elections|Chapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 7. Prohibition of dual candidacies

 In any general, primary, or special election, no person's name may appear on a ballot as candidate for more than one (1) of the following offices: (1) Governor; (2) Lieutenant Governor; (3) Delegate to Congress; (4) Senator; (5) Board of Education; and (6) Board of Elections.
V.I. Code tit. 18, § 21 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 18 - Elections|Chapter 2 - Virgin Islands Delegate to United States House of Representatives|§ 21. Local provisions for Federal Act

 In order to carry out the provisions of P.L. 92–271, 92nd Congress (approved Apr. 10, 1972), providing for a nonvoting Virgin Islands Delegate to the United States House of Representatives, the following subsection shall govern the administration of such Federal Act: (a) Candidates for the office of Delegate to the House of Representatives shall be nominated pursuant to the pertinent provisions of this title. (b) After review and approval by the Joint Boards of Elections, the Supervisor of Elections shall cause to be entered on the Official Ballot a separate ballot containing the names of candidates for the office of Delegate to the House of Representatives which shall be contained in the electronic voting machines. Such names shall appear in an order thereon as determined by lot. The ballot shall conform to the requirements regarding its form and content as prescribed by this title. (c) If no candidate for the office of Delegate to the House of Representatives receives a majority of the votes cast in any election, the runoff election required by § 2(a), 86 Stat. 119, P.L. 92–271, 92nd Congress shall be conducted and administered by the Supervisor of Elections in the same manner as runoff elections for the office of Governor. (d) In the case of permanent vacancy in the office of Delegate by reason of death, resignation, or permanent disability, such vacancy shall be filled in one of the two following manners: (1) If such vacancy occurs within six months prior to the date of the next general election, the Legislature of the Virgin Islands shall, subject to the approval of the Governor, select, by simple majority, a Delegate to the House of Representatives to fill the vacancy. The person selected shall be a member of the same political party as his predecessor. (2) If a vacancy occurs at any time up to and including six months prior to the date of the next general election, such vacancy shall be filled by special election held not less than 60 days after the date of the occurrence of the vacancy. Candidates for such special election shall be chosen by the members of the territorial committees of the political parties in the territory in a manner they deem to be appropriate, or in accordance with the provisions of subchapter II of chapter 17 of this title; however, the number of qualified electors signing such nomination papers in each legislative district shall be equal to not less than five (5%) percent of the vote cast for Delegate to the House of Representatives in the most recent general election for that office in such legislative district.
V.I. Code tit. 18, § 45 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 18 - Elections|Chapter 3 - Boards of Elections|§ 45. Clerk and other assistants; compensation; powers and duties of clerk; inspector of registration

 (a) There may be employed to serve each board of elections a clerk and other necessary board assistants, which clerk and other assistants shall be in the career service established pursuant to the provisions of Title 3, chapter 25 of the Code. Such clerk and other assistants shall be qualified electors of the district. The clerk shall keep the journal and have custody of the records of the board, and, in addition to performing any other duties prescribed by the board, shall serve as an inspector of registration, and, when so serving, may administer oaths and affirmations, and shall exercise the powers conferred, and perform the duties and obligations imposed, by this title upon inspectors of registration. (b) The clerk, in his capacity as inspector of registration, shall take an oath of office as prescribed by the board, and shall receive from the board a certificate of appointment, setting forth his name and address, the date of his appointment, and the length of time for which he shall have been appointed. (c) No person who holds, or is a candidate for public or party office shall be appointed to or hold any office or employment under a board of elections, unless this title otherwise provides.
V.I. Code tit. 18, § 46 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 18 - Elections|Chapter 3 - Boards of Elections|§ 46. Quarters

 The Commissioner of Property and Procurement shall provide the Supervisor of Elections and each board of elections with suitable and adequate offices within its election district, properly furnished for keeping its records, holding its public sessions and otherwise performing its public duties.
V.I. Code tit. 18, § 48 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 18 - Elections|Chapter 3 - Boards of Elections|§ 48. Regulations; subpoenas; oaths; witnesses; fees

 (a) Each board of elections may prescribe regulations, not inconsistent with this title or other law, to govern its public sessions, and may issue subpoenas, summon witnesses, compel production of books, papers, records and other evidence, and fix the time and place for hearing any matters relating to the administration and conduct of registrations and party enrollments of electors and of primaries and elections in the district under the provisions of this title. All subpoenas issued by the board shall be in substantially the same form and shall have the same force and effect as subpoenas issued by the district court, and, upon application, the board shall be entitled to the process of that court, if necessary, to enforce any subpoena issued by the board. (b) Each member of a board may administer oaths and affirmations pursuant to the provisions of this title. Each person testifying before a board shall first be duly sworn or affirmed. (c) A person filing a petition with a board, or opposing a petition filed therewith, may have subpoenas issued by the board to compel the attendance of witnesses, upon condition that all witnesses so subpoenaed shall be paid the standard prevailing witness fees, in the manner provided in this section. (d) Except as provided in subsection (e) of this section, each witness subpoenaed by the board on its own motion or request shall be entitled to daily witness fees at the rate specified in subsection (c) of this section, to be paid by the board. (e) Election officers, clerks, inspectors, and watchers, when subpoenaed by the board to appear before it, sitting for the computation and canvassing of votes cast at an election, shall not be entitled to witness fees. (f) No subpoena shall be issued for the benefit of a person other than the board until he shall have deposited with the board one day's witness fees for each witness to be summoned thereby, whose names shall be given to the board and entered by it in such subpoena and among its records, and no such subpoena shall be effective to require the further attendance of a witness after the day mentioned therein, unless the hearing be postponed or continued by the board, and unless, before four o'clock p.m. of such day, the person for whose benefit it be issued shall have deposited with the board an additional day's witness fees for each witness whose further attendance is desired. (g) As soon as convenient after a hearing is concluded, postponed or continued on any day, the board shall disburse the fees deposited with it by any persons aforesaid, among those witnesses who have appeared in response to subpoenas issued as aforesaid and shall return to the depositor any fees deposited by him for others who did not attend, and shall also pay the fees to any witnesses summoned by the board on its own motion or request, taking their receipts therefor, as long as there are sufficient funds available for such payments.
V.I. Code tit. 18, § 50 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 18 - Elections|Chapter 3 - Boards of Elections|§ 50. Journal of proceedings

 Each board of elections shall maintain a journal of all its proceedings, which shall be kept by the clerk of the board.
V.I. Code tit. 18, § 51 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 18 - Elections|Chapter 3 - Boards of Elections|§ 51. Counsel, compensation; duties

 The Joint Board of Elections shall have the discretion to retain the Attorney General of the Virgin Islands to serve as counsel for each board of elections, or to retain an independent Counsel. If elected by the Joint Board of Elections to serve as counsel, the Attorney General shall receive no compensation for said service in addition to his compensation as Attorney General. The Counsel shall advise each board, from time to time, regarding its powers and duties, and the rights of candidates and electors, and concerning the best methods of legal procedure for carrying out the various provisions of this title. He shall appear for and represent each board on all appeals taken from its decisions or orders to the district court, as provided in this title.
V.I. Code tit. 18, § 52 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 18 - Elections|Chapter 3 - Boards of Elections|§ 52. Acts of board employees

 Any insertion or removal of names or other information in registers, or the amending of any records by an employee of a board of elections, shall be construed to have been done by the board itself, which shall likewise be responsible for the correction of any errors in the doing thereof.
V.I. Code tit. 18, § 53 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 18 - Elections|Chapter 3 - Boards of Elections|§ 53. Public inspection of records and documents

 (a) Subject to the provisions of subsection (b) of this section, the records of each board of elections, and all registers, voting lists, certificates, papers, affidavits, general and duplicate returns, petitions, appeals, witness lists, accounts, contracts, reports, and other documents in its custody shall be open to public inspection, and may be inspected and copied by any qualified elector of the district during ordinary business hours, at any time when they are not necessarily being used by the board, or its employees having duties to perform thereto. (b) The public inspection permitted by this section shall only be in the presence of a member or authorized employee of the board, and shall be subject to proper regulation for safekeeping of the records and documents, and subject to the further provisions of this title. Returns, tally papers, affidavits of voters and others, and all other papers required to be returned by the election officers to the board sealed, shall be open to public inspection only after the board shall, in the course of computation and canvassing of the returns, have broken the seals and finished, for the time, its use of such papers in connection with such computation and canvassing.
V.I. Code tit. 18, § 54 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 18 - Elections|Chapter 3 - Boards of Elections|§ 54. Preservation of records

 All documents, papers and records in the office of the board of elections for each district, relating to the conduct and result of any primary or election, shall be preserved for a period of at least two years, and shall be preserved for a greater period if the board has been notified in writing by the United States attorney, or by a judge of a court of record, to preserve such papers for a longer period of time, for the purposes of pending prosecution or litigation.
V.I. Code tit. 18, § 55 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 18 - Elections|Chapter 3 - Boards of Elections|§ 55. Watchers, attorneys and candidates at board sessions

 (a) Any political party which is, or hereafter may be, entitled to have watchers at any registration, or primary or election, shall also be entitled to appoint watchers who are qualified electors of the district, or attorneys, to represent such party at any public session of the board of elections of the district, and at any computation and canvassing of returns of a primary or election or recount of ballots under the provisions of this title. Such watchers or attorneys may exercise the same rights as watchers at registration and polling places, but the number of such persons who may be present at any one time may be limited by the board to three for each party. (b) Every candidate shall be entitled to be present in person or by attorney in fact duly authorized, and to participate in any proceeding before a board of elections whenever any matters which may affect his candidacy are being heard, including any computation and canvassing of returns of a primary or election or recount of ballots affecting his candidacy. (c) Any watcher, attorney or candidate present at a recount of ballots may examine the ballots and raise any objections regarding the same, which shall be decided by the board, subject to appeal, in the manner provided by this title.
V.I. Code tit. 18, § 56 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 18 - Elections|Chapter 3 - Boards of Elections|§ 56. Board members as inspectors of registration

 Members of boards of elections may act at any time as inspectors of registration, and, when so acting, shall have and may exercise the powers, and shall perform the duties and obligations conferred by or in accordance with law upon inspectors of registration.
V.I. Code tit. 18, § 57 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 18 - Elections|Chapter 3 - Boards of Elections|§ 57. Immunity from arrest

 Members of boards of elections and inspectors of registration shall be privileged from arrest while performing their duties as such under this title, except upon warrant of a court of record or a judge thereof, for felony, for wanton breach of the peace, or for a criminal violation of this title.
V.I. Code tit. 18, § 58 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 18 - Elections|Chapter 3 - Boards of Elections|§ 58. Intervention in suits

 In any suit brought by or against a board of elections, the Attorney General shall be permitted to intervene on behalf of the territory of the Virgin Islands at any stage of the proceedings.
V.I. Code tit. 18, § 91 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 18 - Elections|Chapter 5 - Registration of Electors|§ 91. Registration under this chapter

 Provision for the registration and party enrollment of qualified electors shall be made throughout each year, except during the period of 30 days immediately preceding and five days immediately following each election, as provided in this chapter.