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V.I. Code tit. 11A, § 5-117 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 11A - Uniform Commercial Code|Article 5 - Letters of Credit|§ 5-117. Subrogation of issuer, applicant, and nominated person

 (a) An issuer that honors a beneficiary's presentation is subrogated to the rights of the beneficiary to the same extent as if the issuer were a secondary obligor of the underlying obligation owed to the beneficiary and of the applicant to the same extent as if the issuer were the secondary obligor of the underlying obligation owed to the applicant. (b) An applicant that reimburses an issuer is subrogated to the rights of the issuer against any beneficiary, presenter, or nominated person to the same extent as if the applicant were the secondary obligor of the obligations owed to the issuer and has the rights of subrogation of the issuer to the rights of the beneficiary stated in subsection (a). (c) A nominated person who pays or gives value against a draft or demand presented under a letter of credit is subrogated to the rights of: (1) the issuer against the applicant to the same extent as if the nominated person were a secondary obligor of the obligation owed to the issuer by the applicant; (2) the beneficiary to the same extent as if the nominated person were a secondary obligor of the underlying obligation owed to the beneficiary; and (3) the applicant to same extent as if the nominated person were a secondary obligor of the underlying obligation owed to the applicant. (d) Notwithstanding any agreement or term to the contrary, the rights of subrogation stated in subsections (a) and (b) do not arise until the issuer honors the letter of credit or otherwise pays and the rights in subsection (c) do not arise until the nominated person pays or otherwise gives value. Until then, the issuer, nominated person, and the applicant do not derive under this section present or prospective rights forming the basis of a claim, defense, or excuse.
V.I. Code tit. 11A, § 5-118 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 11A - Uniform Commercial Code|Article 5 - Letters of Credit|§ 5-118. Security interest of issuer or nominated person

 (a) An issuer or nominated person has a security interest in a document presented under a letter of credit to the extent that the issuer or nominated person honors or gives value for the presentation. (b) So long as and to the extent that an issuer or nominated person has not been reimbursed or has not otherwise recovered the value given with respect to a security interest in a document under subsection (a), the security interest continues and is subject to Article 9, but: (1) a security agreement is not necessary to make the security interest enforceable under Section 9–203(b)(3); (2) if the document is presented in a medium other than a written or other tangible medium, the security interest is perfected; and (3) if the document is presented in a written or other tangible medium and is not a certificated security, chattel paper, a document of title, an instrument, or a letter of credit, the security interest is perfected and has priority over a conflicting security interest in the document so long as the debtor does not have possession of the document.
V.I. Code tit. 12, § 101 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 12 - Conservation|Chapter 2 - Protection of Indigenous, Endangered and Threatened Fish, Wildlife and Plants|§ 101. Purpose

 The purpose of this chapter is to protect, conserve, and manage indigenous fish, wildlife and plants, and endangered or threatened species for the ultimate benefit of all United States Virgin Islanders, now and in the future.
V.I. Code tit. 12, § 103 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 12 - Conservation|Chapter 2 - Protection of Indigenous, Endangered and Threatened Fish, Wildlife and Plants|§ 103. Endangered Species Preservation Commission

 (a) There is hereby created within the Department of Planning and Natural Resources, an Endangered Species Preservation Commission which shall be composed of the Commissioner of Planning and Natural Resources, who shall be a non-voting member, ex officio, and seven other members, five of which shall consist of: (1) the Director of the Division of Fish and Wildlife, (2) the Chief of the Bureau of Environmental Education, (3) the Chief of the Bureau of Fisheries, (4) the Chief of the Bureau of Wildlife, and (5) the Chief of Environmental Enforcement of the Department of Planning and Natural Resources. (b) The other two members of the Commission shall be appointed by the Governor with the advice and consent of the Senate. One shall be a resident of St. Croix and one shall be a resident of the St. Thomas-St. John district. The two appointed members shall possess training and education in either botany, zoology or biology. (c) The Commission shall elect a Chairman from among its members. Four voting members of the Commission shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of all business of the Commission. A majority of those voting members present shall decide on all matters before the Commission. The Commission may adopt such other rules as it deems necessary to conduct its business. (d) Appointed members of the Commission shall serve a term of two years and may be reappointed. Upon the conclusion of the term of any appointed member of the Commission, such person shall continue to serve until a new member has been appointed. The appointed members of the Commission shall receive the sum of $50 for each day or part thereof spent in the performance of their duties. Every member of the Commission shall be reimbursed for necessary travel, subsistence and other expenses actually incurred in the discharge of his duties as a member of the Commission. Appointed members of the Commission may be removed by the Governor for cause.
V.I. Code tit. 12, § 107 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 12 - Conservation|Chapter 2 - Protection of Indigenous, Endangered and Threatened Fish, Wildlife and Plants|§ 107. Penalties

 Any person violating any provision of this chapter shall, upon conviction thereof, be subject to a fine of not less than $100, and not more than $10,000. Such person may also be sentenced to serve a term in jail of not more than sixty (60) days. For the purpose of assessing the penalty, each specimen of an indigenous species, endangered or threatened animal or plant, or mangrove shall be considered a separate offense.
V.I. Code tit. 12, § 121 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 12 - Conservation|Chapter 3 - Trees and Vegetation Adjacent to Watercourses|§ 121. Enforcement of chapter

 Conservation officers appointed by the Commissioner of Conservation and Cultural Affairs are primarily responsible for enforcing the provisions of this chapter.
V.I. Code tit. 12, § 122 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 12 - Conservation|Chapter 3 - Trees and Vegetation Adjacent to Watercourses|§ 122. Assistance of U.S. Virgin Islands Police Department (V.I.P.D).

 The Commissioner may secure the assistance of the U.S. Virgin Islands Police Department (V.I.P.D.) in executing the provisions of this chapter.
V.I. Code tit. 12, § 123 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 12 - Conservation|Chapter 3 - Trees and Vegetation Adjacent to Watercourses|§ 123. Cutting or injuring certain trees

 (a) No landowner or other person shall, except as provided in this chapter, encourage, procure, cause or aid in the cutting or injury of any tree or vegetation within 30 feet of the center of any natural watercourse, or within 25 feet of the edge of such watercourse, whichever is greater. (b) For purposes of this chapter a natural watercourse means any stream with a reasonable well-defined channel, and includes streams which have a permanent flow, as well as those which result from the accumulation of water after rainfalls and which regularly flow through channels formed by the force of the waters.
V.I. Code tit. 12, § 124 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 12 - Conservation|Chapter 3 - Trees and Vegetation Adjacent to Watercourses|§ 124. Obtaining permission to cut or injure certain trees

 (a) A landowner may cut or injure, on his own land, trees or vegetation of the type described in subsection (a) of section 123 of this title, if he has obtained the written permission of the Commissioner. (b) Any person may cut or injure, on land other than his own, trees or vegetation of the type described in subsection (a) of section 123 of this title, if he has obtained the written permission of the owner thereof and the written permission of the Commissioner. (c) The Commissioner shall grant such permission only where it appears to him that the proposed cutting or injuring is necessary for purposes of access to, or development of, the property. (d) Duplicate copies of all permits issued hereunder shall be kept on file in the office of the Commissioner.
V.I. Code tit. 12, § 125 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 12 - Conservation|Chapter 3 - Trees and Vegetation Adjacent to Watercourses|§ 125. Penalties for violation

 Whoever violates any provision of this chapter shall be fined not more than $100 or imprisoned not more than 180 days, or both.
V.I. Code tit. 12, § 151 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 12 - Conservation|Chapter 5 - Water Resources Conservation|§ 151. Declaration of policy

 It is hereby declared to be the public policy of the Government of the United States Virgin Islands, in recognition of its sovereign duty to conserve and control its water resources for the benefit of the inhabitants of the United States Virgin Islands, that comprehensive planning and regulation be undertaken for the protection, conservation and development of the water resources of the United States Virgin Islands to the end that they shall not be wasted and shall be used to the fullest extent to meet the present and future needs for domestic, agricultural, commercial, industrial, recreational and other public, beneficial purposes. It is further declared that an emergency condition exists with respect to the availability of surface and underground water in the United States Virgin Islands and that restrictions are necessary to prevent overpumping of water from wells, the depletion of surface and underground water, the intrusion of salt water and the resultant permanent destruction of underground water reservoirs as sources of potable water supply. In view of the foregoing, all waters within the United States Virgin Islands are hereby declared to be public waters belonging to the people of the United States Virgin Islands, subject to appropriation for beneficial use in the manner set forth in this chapter and not otherwise.
V.I. Code tit. 12, § 152 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 12 - Conservation|Chapter 5 - Water Resources Conservation|§ 152. Definitions

 (a) “Department” means the Department of Planning and Natural Resources. (b) “Commissioner” means the Commissioner of Planning and Natural Resources or his authorized representative. (c) “Person” means any individual, firm, partnership, association, corporation, the Government of the United States, the Government of the United States Virgin Islands, or any department, agency, or authority of such governments. (d) “Water” shall be construed to include ponds, springs, wells, and streams and all other bodies of surface or underground water, natural or artificial, inland or coastal, fresh or salt, public or private. (e) “Well” shall be construed to mean any hole drilled, dug, or bored for the purpose of obtaining water or knowledge of water bearing formations or for disposal of waste materials. (f) “Domestic use” means the use of water for household purposes, the watering of livestock, poultry and domestic animals, and the irrigation of not more than ½ acre of gardens and lawns. (g) “Vested right” means the right to continue the use of water having actually been applied to any beneficial use at the time of passage of this chapter or within three years prior thereto to the extent of the existing beneficial use made thereof. (h) “Appropriation” means an amount of water authorized and allotted by permit issued by the Commissioner, to be withdrawn from a designated source and applied to a specified beneficial use or uses within stated limits as to quantity, rate and period of withdrawal or diversion.
V.I. Code tit. 12, § 153 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 12 - Conservation|Chapter 5 - Water Resources Conservation|§ 153. Appropriation permits

 No person shall have the power to take or withdraw water without first obtaining a permit from the Commissioner conferring an appropriation right; provided, that this section shall not apply to any person taking or withdrawing less than 500 gallons per day for beneficial use; and provided, further, that existing users of water may continue to take or withdraw water to the extent of their vested right without a permit until 90 days after the promulgation of regulations by the Commissioner governing the issuance of permits, as provided in section 154 of this title, and thereafter so long as an application for a permit embodying these rights has been filed.
V.I. Code tit. 12, § 154 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 12 - Conservation|Chapter 5 - Water Resources Conservation|§ 154. Terms and conditions of appropriation permits

 (a) The Commissioner is hereby empowered and directed to issue regulations governing the form and consent of applications for appropriation permits. (b) The fee for an appropriation permit shall be ten dollars, and the permit shall be valid for a period of ten years or for such other period, not less than two nor more than twenty years, as may be deemed appropriate under the circumstances. The permit shall specifically state its term of validity. (c) Each appropriation permit shall state the maximum amount of water that may be taken or withdrawn per year and shall specifically describe the well or other source from which the water is to be obtained. The permit may also restrict the rate of taking or withdrawal per day, week, or month.
V.I. Code tit. 12, § 155 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 12 - Conservation|Chapter 5 - Water Resources Conservation|§ 155. Principles governing issuance of permits

 (a) Applications for permits embodying vested rights shall be granted in preference to all other applications, except insofar as the Government may choose to condemn such rights under its powers of eminent domain and pay just compensation therefor; provided, that such applications and the permits issued pursuant to such applications may be denied, revoked, or modified when it is found, in accordance with section 156(c) of this title, that the exercise of rights under the permit would imperil the health or welfare of the people of the United States Virgin Islands by endangering, impairing, or destroying available sources of water. (b) All other applications for beneficial use of water shall be granted unless it is found by the Commissioner that there are not adequate supplies of water available at the source or sources designated in the application to assure continued availability of water from the designated source or sources to the applicant and prior appropriators; provided, that the Commissioner may limit the amount of appropriation authorized by the permit to such amount as he has reason to believe is available and will actually be put to the described beneficial use or uses within three years from the time of issuance of the permit. (c) All applications for the taking or withdrawal of water from the same source or sources filed within thirty days of one another shall be considered contemporaneous applications. In the event the quantity of water sought to be appropriated by contemporaneous applications exceeds the quantity available for appropriation, the Commissioner is empowered, subject to the provisions of subsection (d) of this section, to grant one or more applications in whole or in part and to deny any or all of the applications in whole or in part; provided, that he shall not refuse to appropriate waters found to be available for appropriation. (d) The Commissioner shall promulgate rules and regulations generally describing the principles to be applied in carrying out the provisions of this chapter, including the resolution of conflicting contemporaneous applications for appropriation permits and the revocation or modification of appropriation permits pursuant to section 156(c) of this title; provided, that preference shall be given to domestic uses as against other beneficial uses and may be given to renewal applications over new applications.
V.I. Code tit. 12, § 156 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 12 - Conservation|Chapter 5 - Water Resources Conservation|§ 156. Lapse, modification, or revocation of permits

 (a) The rights conferred by an appropriation permit shall lapse, and the permit shall become null and void, in the event of nonuse of the appropriation for a period of two consecutive years; provided, that the Commissioner shall have discretion not to apply this subsection to appropriations expressly intended for emergency or standby purposes, rather than regular use, upon a showing that the need to use the appropriated water has not arisen during the period of nonuse. (b) Within one year from the date of issuance of any permit under this chapter the Commissioner shall review the application, inspect any well or other water works constructed in connection therewith, and examine the actual use of water being made under the permit. If, upon such review and inspection, he finds that the amount authorized for appropriation in the original permit exceeds the amount that will be required to meet the needs of the permittee for beneficial use, he may amend the permit by reducing the amount authorized for appropriation to the required amount. (c) Whenever it is found that the appropriations authorized or the actual withdrawals from any source of water exceed the quantity of water that may safely be withdrawn from the source, the Commissioner shall take steps to protect the water source, including the modification or revocation of any outstanding appropriation permits authorizing withdrawal from that source.
V.I. Code tit. 12, § 157 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 12 - Conservation|Chapter 5 - Water Resources Conservation|§ 157. Well driller's license

 (a) No person shall engage in the business of well drilling in the United States Virgin Islands without first obtaining a license from the Commissioner as hereinafter provided. Such licenses are required not only of those who make a regular business of well drilling, but of all who may put down wells for others as an incident to any line of business activity. Well drillers' licenses are not required for strictly private operations when a property owner by his own labor puts down a well on his own property to supply his own dwelling or the needs of his animals or crops. (b) Application for a well driller's license shall be made on a form prescribed and furnished by the Commissioner providing such information as the Commissioner deems necessary for the purpose of the issuance of such licenses. The number of the license must be displayed on the well-drilling machinery of the licensee. The fee for such license shall be twenty-five dollars annually. (c) Within 30 days after the completion or the termination for any reason of the drilling of any well, whether or not any water is found, a report shall be filed by the driller on forms furnished and prescribed by the Commissioner, indicating the log of the well, materials encountered, with depth below ground surface, water bearing beds, yields and water levels in each, casings, screens, pumping tests, the size and depth of the well, the capacity of the pump or pumps attached or to be attached thereto and such other information pertaining to the withdrawal of water and the operation of such well as the Commissioner may deem necessary. The driller shall at the request of the Commissioner also furnish samples of the materials encountered in the drilling of the well, which shall be taken at intervals of five feet or at every change of formation. (d) This section will become effective 30 days after the issuance of regulations governing well drillers' licenses.
V.I. Code tit. 12, § 158 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 12 - Conservation|Chapter 5 - Water Resources Conservation|§ 158. Well drilling

 Except as provided in section 153 of this title, no well shall be drilled in the United States Virgin Islands unless the owner or lessee of the land on which the well is to be drilled shall have obtained an appropriation permit authorizing withdrawal of water by means of such well.
V.I. Code tit. 12, § 159 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 12 - Conservation|Chapter 5 - Water Resources Conservation|§ 159. Provision of information; right of inspection

 (a) All persons taking or withdrawing water in any amount, including persons exempted from the permit requirements of this chapter by virtue of the fact that they are taking or withdrawing less than 500 gallons of water per day, shall be obligated at all times to provide the Commissioner with such information as may be requested and as is reasonably required for the successful regulation and conservation of the water resources of the United States Virgin Islands. (b) The Commissioner or his authorized representative shall have the power at reasonable hours to make such inspections and take such samples as may be necessary for the proper and effective execution of his responsibilities under this chapter, including the gathering of information related to conservation of the water resources of the United States Virgin Islands, the supervision of the construction, repair, and maintenance of wells, and the enforcement of the terms and conditions contained in appropriation permits issued by him. (c) Failure to provide information and permit inspection authorized by this section shall be grounds for the revocation of an appropriation permit, as well as for the imposition of such other penalties as may be authorized by law.
V.I. Code tit. 12, § 160 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 12 - Conservation|Chapter 5 - Water Resources Conservation|§ 160. Meters to be installed; access to wells

 (a) Any person operating a well pursuant to an appropriation permit shall install a meter of a type and in the manner specified by regulations of the Commissioner for the purpose of recording the amount of water drawn from the well. When appropriate, meters may also be required in connection with the withdrawal of water by other means under an appropriation permit. (b) The Commissioner shall have the power, in the case of wells excepted from the permit requirement by section 153 of this title, to install a meter at the Government's expense. (c) Each well shall have an opening of not less than ¾ inch in diameter for the measurement of water levels in the well by means of a wetted steel tape. For sanitary purposes this opening shall be sealed by means of a plug when not in use. The well shall be so constructed that this opening shall be readily accessible.
V.I. Code tit. 12, § 161 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 12 - Conservation|Chapter 5 - Water Resources Conservation|§ 161. Sealing of wells

 For the purpose of preventing the contamination of fresh-water aquifers, the owner of a well, upon abandoning or encountering highly mineralized water in any existing or new well test hole, shall immediately notify the Commissioner and shall effectively seal such well or test hole under the supervision of and to the satisfaction of the Commissioner.
V.I. Code tit. 12, § 162 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 12 - Conservation|Chapter 5 - Water Resources Conservation|§ 162. Wasteful use prohibited

 No owner of a well, whether a pumping well or a flowing well, shall discharge from the well or permit the discharge from the well of water that is allowed to run to waste and not put to useful service, except in connection with pumping tests.