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V.I. Code tit. 3, § 588 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 3 - Executive|Chapter 25 - Personnel Merit System, Compensation, Expenses and Miscellaneous Benefits|Subchapter VI - Leaves of Absence|§ 588. Refund upon re-employment before expiration of period covered by leave payment

 If any officer or employee paid under section 587 of this title is reemployed in the Government Service under the same leave system prior to the expiration of the period covered by such leave payment, he shall refund to the Government an amount equal to the compensation covering the period between the date of re-employment and the expiration of such leave period, and the amount of leave represented by such refund shall be credited to him.
V.I. Code tit. 3, § 589 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 3 - Executive|Chapter 25 - Personnel Merit System, Compensation, Expenses and Miscellaneous Benefits|Subchapter VI - Leaves of Absence|§ 589. Payment for accumulated and accrued leave to survivors of deceased personnel

 Upon the death of any civilian officer or employee of the Government of the United States Virgin Islands, compensation for all his accumulated and current accrued annual or vacation leave in a lump sum equal to the compensation that such officer or employee would have received had he remained in the Service until the expiration of the period of such annual or vacation leave, shall be paid, upon the establishment of a valid claim therefor— (1) to the beneficiary or beneficiaries, if any, lawfully designated by such officer or employee; or (2) if there be no such designated beneficiary or beneficiaries, to the following first person or persons who are alive on the date title to the payment arises— (A) to the widow or widower; (B) if there be neither of the above, to the child or children in equal shares, with the share of any deceased child distributed among the descendants of that child; (C) if there be none of the above, to the parents in equal shares or the entire amount to the surviving parent; or (D) if there be none of the above, to the duly appointed legal representative of the estate of the deceased employee, or if there be no such representative, to the person or persons determined to be entitled thereto under the laws of the domicile of the deceased employee.
V.I. Code tit. 3, § 590 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 3 - Executive|Chapter 25 - Personnel Merit System, Compensation, Expenses and Miscellaneous Benefits|Subchapter VI - Leaves of Absence|§ 590. Administrative leave for reserve military service

 All personnel of the Government of the United States Virgin Islands, including personnel of authorities, independent boards, agencies, and other instrumentalities of the Government of the United States Virgin Islands, who are members of an active reserve unit of any branch of the armed services of the United States, shall in addition to any accrued leave be entitled to administrative leave with pay for time spent in mandatory attendance at annual reserve summer training encampment, and at regular drills and training sessions conducted throughout the year.
V.I. Code tit. 3, § 590a (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 3 - Executive|Chapter 25 - Personnel Merit System, Compensation, Expenses and Miscellaneous Benefits|Subchapter VI - Leaves of Absence|§ 590a. American Red Cross Volunteers

 (a) All personnel of the Government of the Virgin Islands, including personnel of authorities, independent boards, agencies, and other instrumentalities of the Government of the Virgin Islands, who are American Red Cross volunteers and certified in disaster relief services, and upon the request of the American Red Cross, may be granted administrative leave, not to exceed twenty (20) work days annually, to participate in specialized diaster [disaster] relief services conducted by the American Red Cross. While on administrative leave with the American Red Cross, any other leave or seniority accrued by the employee shall not be affected. (b) All personnel of the Government of the Virgin Islands, including personnel of authorities, independent boards, agencies, and other instrumentalities of the Government of the Virgin Islands who are American Red Cross volunteers and certified in disaster relief services, and upon the request of the American Red Cross, shall, in addition to any other leave for which they may be eligible, be granted administrative leave with pay for the purpose of receiving training from the American Red Cross.
V.I. Code tit. 3, § 590b (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 3 - Executive|Chapter 25 - Personnel Merit System, Compensation, Expenses and Miscellaneous Benefits|Subchapter VI - Leaves of Absence|§ 590b. Caregivers Leave Act

 (a) This section may be cited as The Caregivers Leave Act. (b) All fulltime personnel of the Government of the Virgin Islands, including personnel of authorities, independent boards, commissions, agencies, and other instrumentalities of the Government of the Virgin Islands who are caregivers, as defined in 19 V.I.C. § 253(c), are entitled to four hours of administrative leave with pay per month for the purpose performing their caregiver duties. (c) The director of the Division of Personnel shall promulgate regulations as necessary to carry out the purpose of this section.
V.I. Code tit. 3, § 591 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 3 - Executive|Chapter 25 - Personnel Merit System, Compensation, Expenses and Miscellaneous Benefits|Subchapter VI - Leaves of Absence|§ 591. Rights preserved after service in the Legislature

 Any employee of the Government of the United States Virgin Islands in the classified service who, while so employed, is elected to the Legislature of the Virgin Islands, is entitled to return to the classified service upon his termination from the Legislature. Such employee shall be returned to the classified service within fifteen days after his written notice to the Director of Personnel of his intent to return; Provided, That such written notice is given to the Director within six months after such employee's termination from the Legislature. An employee who elects to return to the classified service pursuant to this section shall retain the rights and privileges of his employment accrued prior to his election to the Legislature including, but not limited to, sick leave, annual leave, tenure, and rights to promotion. The employee shall be returned to the classified service in a position not less than the grade and position he held prior to his service in the Legislature.
V.I. Code tit. 3, § 592 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 3 - Executive|Chapter 25 - Personnel Merit System, Compensation, Expenses and Miscellaneous Benefits|Subchapter VI - Leaves of Absence|§ 592. Rights of police officers preserved after service in an unclassified position

 (a) Any police officer in the classified service who, while so employed, is selected for unclassified service, is entitled to return to the classified service upon his termination from unclassified service within fifteen days after his written notice to the Director of Personnel of his intent to return to classified service; provided that such written notice is given to the Director within six months after such employee's termination from unclassified service. A police officer who elects to return to the classified service pursuant to this section shall retain the rights and privileges of his employment accrued prior to his unclassified service including, but not limited to, sick leave, annual leave, tenure, and rights to promotion. The employee shall be returned to the classified service in a position not less than the grade and position he held prior to his unclassified service. (b) A peace officer, firefighter or corrections officer who accepts a position within the respective officer's department or in another department or agency of the Government which is in the unclassified service and which is higher in rank than the classified position, and who subsequently elects to return to classified rank of service must be given full credit for all the time served in the unclassified service, and the time served must be added to the prior time in the classified service for salary and seniority purposes. (c) A peace officer who accepts a position in the executive security service and subsequently elects to return to classified rank of service must be given full credit for all the time served in the executive security service, and the time served must be added to prior time in the classified service for salary and seniority purposes. (d) This section may not be construed as requiring the payment of any retroactive wages that might have accrued while the officer was serving in the unclassified service or the executive security service, as the case may be.
V.I. Code tit. 3, § 593 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 3 - Executive|Chapter 25 - Personnel Merit System, Compensation, Expenses and Miscellaneous Benefits|Subchapter VI - Leaves of Absence|§ 593. Voluntary Leave Without Pay

 (a) With the exception of employees funded by federal monies and those exempted in section 5, subsection (a) of Act No. 7261, any employee who has accumulated five or more years of government service may take up to two years, but not less than one year of Voluntary Leave Without Pay for any purpose whatsoever without losing seniority and shall have the right to return to his employment. (b) During the period that the employee is on Voluntary Leave Without Pay, the Government in addition to paying the employer's share of contributions to the Health Insurance and Government Employees Retirement System (GERS) shall also pay the employee's share to both the Health Insurance and GERS. (c) During the period of Voluntary Leave Without Pay the employee may not accumulate annual leave or sick leave. (d) Voluntary Leave Without Pay may be taken only once during the employee's employment with the Government, based on the approval of the agency or department head, and may not be combined with any other kind of leave. (e) Notwithstanding subsection (a), any employee who elects to take voluntary leave without pay must give the agency head thirty (30) days notice and must return to work on or before October 1, 2016. Participation in Voluntary Leave Without Pay is subject to the approval of the Agency or Department head.
V.I. Code tit. 3, § 611 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 3 - Executive|Chapter 25 - Personnel Merit System, Compensation, Expenses and Miscellaneous Benefits|Subchapter VII - Transportation and Other Expenses|§ 611. Travel expenses of appointees; transportation of household goods and personal effects

 (a) There is hereby authorized to be paid from the appropriations of the several departments, the expenses of travel of new appointees recruited from outside or within the Virgin Islands and their immediate families and expenses of transportation of their household goods and personal effects from places of actual residence outside or within the territorial limits of the Virgin Islands and for such expenses on return of such employees and their families from their post of duty to the places of their actual residence at time of appointment. Any employee who for the convenience of the Government of the United States Virgin Islands is transferred, promoted or otherwise reassigned from one duty station to another duty station within the Virgin Islands shall also be entitled to reimbursement as provided herein. (b) Such expenses of travel and transportation, as provided in subsection (a) of this section, shall not be allowed until and unless the person selected for appointment shall agree in writing to remain in the Government Service for 12 months following his appointment, unless separated for reasons beyond his control and acceptable to the department concerned. In case of violation of such agreement any monies expended by the Government of the United States Virgin Islands shall be recoverable from the individual concerned as a debt due the Government. (c) Expenses of return travel and transportation upon separation from the service shall be allowed whether such separation is for the purposes of Government or for personal convenience. Provided, that such expenses shall not be allowed unless such persons shall have served a minimum period of not less than one or more than three years prescribed in advance by the head of the department or agency concerned or unless separation is for reasons beyond the control of the individual and acceptable to the department or agency concerned. (d) Expenses incurred hereunder shall not exceed $2,000 in any individual case unless approved by the Governor of the Virgin Islands.
V.I. Code tit. 3, § 612 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 3 - Executive|Chapter 25 - Personnel Merit System, Compensation, Expenses and Miscellaneous Benefits|Subchapter VII - Transportation and Other Expenses|§ 612. Travel and incidental expenses of employees granted study leave

 Any officer or employee who is granted study leave under section 585 of this title shall be entitled to the payment, by the government, of all necessary travel and incidental expenses with respect thereto, in accordance with the Standard Travel Regulations in the Virgin Islands.
V.I. Code tit. 3, § 631 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 3 - Executive|Chapter 25 - Personnel Merit System, Compensation, Expenses and Miscellaneous Benefits|Subchapter VIII - Insurance|§ 631. Health Insurance Board; regulations governing health insurance plan; advisory committee

 (a) The responsibility for the proper operation of the Government health insurance plan, which plan shall for purposes of this subchapter also include and authorize a life insurance plan, and for making effective the provisions of this subchapter is hereby vested in a board of trustees. The members of the Government Employees' Service Commission shall serve ex officio as the Health Insurance Board of Trustees (hereinafter in this subchapter referred to as the “Board”). Trustees shall receive $20 for each day or part thereof spent in work of the Board, but no member shall receive more than $500 in any fiscal year. Trustees shall also be reimbursed for all necessary expenses that they may incur through service on the Board. (b) The Board, subject to the provisions of this subchapter, is hereby empowered to adopt rules and regulations relating to: (1) the eligibility of (a) active and (b) retired employees of the Government of the United States Virgin Islands to participate in the health insurance plan authorized by this subchapter, (2) the terms and conditions of the insurance contract or contracts, as applied to (a) active employees and (b) retired employees, (3) the purchase of such insurance contract or contracts and the administration of the health insurance plan, and (4) contracting with a third party administrator to administer a self-funded health insurance plan. (c) The Board shall create an advisory committee of seven (7) members, which shall meet at least twice each year to advise and assist the Board in carrying out its functions and responsibilities under this subchapter and to review from time to time the health insurance plan. One of such members shall be the Director of the Office of Management and Budget; one shall be the Commissioner of Health; one shall be the Director of the Personnel; one shall be the Chief Executive Officer of the Roy L. Schneider Hospital; one shall be the Chief Executive Officer of the Juan F. Luis Hospital and the remaining three members shall be appointed by the Board for terms of two years. Two of such members appointed by the Board shall be employees enrolled in the health insurance plan. The committee shall select one of its members as chairman.
V.I. Code tit. 3, § 632 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 3 - Executive|Chapter 25 - Personnel Merit System, Compensation, Expenses and Miscellaneous Benefits|Subchapter VIII - Insurance|§ 632. Health insurance

 (a) The Board, with the approval of the Governor and the Legislature, is hereby authorized and directed to establish a health insurance plan which may be self-funded, for Government officers and employees and their dependents which, subject to the conditions and limitations contained in this subchapter, and in the rules and regulations of the Board, will provide for group hospitalization, surgical, dental, and medical insurance against the financial costs of hospitalization, surgery, dental and medical treatment and care, disability and death benefits; and may include, among other things, prescribed drugs, medicines, prosthetic appliances, hospital inpatient and outpatient service benefits and dental and medical expense indemnity benefits. (b) Such health insurance shall not include expenses incurred by or on account of an individual prior to the effective date of the plan as to him; eye glasses, hearing aids and examinations for the prescription of the fitting thereto, except for a voluntary benefit program; cosmetic surgery or treatment except to the extent necessary for the correction of damage caused by accidental injury while covered by the plan or as direct result of the diseases covered by the plan; services received because of illness or injury arising out of or in the course of employment and entitling the individual to benefit under a worker's compensation administration or occupational disease law; services received in a hospital owned or operated by the United States Government for which no charge is made; services received for injury or sickness due to war or any act of war whether declared, or undeclared, which war or act shall have occurred after the effective date of this plan; expenses for which the individual is not required to make payment; expenses to the extent of benefits provided under any employer group plan other than this plan, and such other expenses as may be excluded by regulations of the Board. (c) The health insurance plan shall be designed by the Board (1) to provide a reasonable relationship between the hospital, surgical, dental, and medical benefits to be included, and the expected distribution of expenses of each such type to be incurred by the covered employees and dependents, and (2) to include reasonable controls, which may include deductible and coinsurance provisions applicable to some or all of the benefits to reduce unnecessary utilization of the various hospital, surgical, dental, and medical services to be provided and to provide reasonable assurance of stability in future years of the plan, and (3) to provide benefits on a nondiscriminatory basis to the extent possible, to active members.
V.I. Code tit. 3, § 634 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 3 - Executive|Chapter 25 - Personnel Merit System, Compensation, Expenses and Miscellaneous Benefits|Subchapter VIII - Insurance|§ 634. Eligibility for benefits

 (a) All persons in the service of the Government of the United States Virgin Islands, the University of the Virgin Islands, the Virgin Islands Waste Management Authority, and the Virgin Islands Port Authority, whether elected, appointed or employed, shall participate in the health insurance plan, provided, unless they can provide annual proof to the Government of the Virgin Islands Health Insurance Board that they are covered by a recognized health insurance plan; provided, however, that the Board may adopt such rules and regulations as it may deem appropriate to exclude temporary, part-time and intermittent employment. (b) Any person employed by a not for profit corporation which has been funded 75% or more each year from federal or local government funds shall be eligible to participate in the health insurance plan. (c) The contract or contracts shall provide for health insurance for retired employees of the Government and their spouses and dependent children and surviving spouses of retirees who receive a retirement annuity based on the selection of the deceased retiree as defined by the rules and regulations of the Board. (d) The Board shall adopt rules and regulations prescribing the conditions under which an employee or retired employee may elect to participate in or withdraw from the plan. (e) Notwithstanding any provision of this Code, any member, upon withdrawal from government service on or after October 1, 1959, shall be entitled to all available benefits including, but not limited to, health insurance, life insurance, annuity benefits, and disability benefits. (f) The Board shall reconcile its Group Insurance Program records every ninety (90) days to exclude non-eligible persons.
V.I. Code tit. 3, § 635 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 3 - Executive|Chapter 25 - Personnel Merit System, Compensation, Expenses and Miscellaneous Benefits|Subchapter VIII - Insurance|§ 635. Coverage for dependents

 Each employee shall be entitled to have his spouse and dependent children, as defined by the rules and regulations of the Board, included in the coverage upon agreeing to pay his contribution to the cost of such coverage for such dependents. The Board shall adopt rules and regulations governing the discontinuance and resumption by employees of coverage for dependents.
V.I. Code tit. 3, § 636 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 3 - Executive|Chapter 25 - Personnel Merit System, Compensation, Expenses and Miscellaneous Benefits|Subchapter VIII - Insurance|§ 636. Termination of active employment

 (a) The health insurance coverage of any employee and his dependents, if any, shall cease upon the discontinuance of his term of office or employment, subject to rules and regulations which may be prescribed by the Board for extension of coverage and for conversion to an individual contract providing for such of the benefits provided under this subchapter as may be provided under such individual contracts, under terms approved by the Board, the total cost of any such contract to be borne by the employee. (b) In the event of death of an employee having coverage at the time of death for himself and his dependents, and where the circumstances of death are such that beneficiaries or dependents of such deceased employee are entitled to an accidental death benefit payable by the retirement system on account of death resulting from an accident sustained in the performance of his duties or to death benefits provided for under the workers' compensation administration law, the unremarried spouse of such employee covered at the time of his death and his covered dependents, for so long as they would otherwise qualify as dependents eligible for coverage under the rules and regulations of the Board, shall be eligible to continue full coverage under the health insurance plan upon payment at intervals determined by the Board of the full cost of such coverage. The Board shall adopt such rules and regulations as may be required to carry out the provisions of this subsection which shall include, but need not be limited to, provisions for filing application for continued coverage, including reasonable time limits therefor, and provisions for continued coverage of spouse and dependents pending determination for an application for accidental death benefits from the retirement system or pending determination of a claim for death benefits under the workmen's compensation law.
V.I. Code tit. 3, § 637 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 3 - Executive|Chapter 25 - Personnel Merit System, Compensation, Expenses and Miscellaneous Benefits|Subchapter VIII - Insurance|§ 637. Payment of benefits

 Any benefits payable under the plan may be made either directly to the attending physicians, hospitals, medical groups, or others furnishing the services upon which a claim is based, or to the covered employee, upon presentation of valid bills for such services, subject to such provisions to facilitate payment as may be made by the Board.