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V.I. Code tit. 23, § 1031 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 23 - Internal Security and Public Order|Chapter 10 - Virgin Islands Territorial Emergency Management Act|Subchapter II - Homeland Security|§ 1031. Homeland Security within VITEMA

 (a) VITEMA shall have jurisdiction over all matters of Homeland security. (b) The Director, in consultation with the VITEMHS Council and all other government agencies, shall establish standards for the operations and activities of the Government related to homeland security efforts.
V.I. Code tit. 23, § 1033 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 23 - Internal Security and Public Order|Chapter 10 - Virgin Islands Territorial Emergency Management Act|Subchapter II - Homeland Security|§ 1033. Additional powers of the Director which may be exercised during a declaration of emergency

 When the Governor declares a state of emergency related to homeland security, the Director shall have and may exercise the following additional powers, under the direction and control of the Governor: (a) Sell, lend, lease, give, transfer, or deliver materials and perform services for homeland security purposes on such terms and conditions as the Governor shall prescribe; (b) Assist the Department of Agriculture and the Department of Health to employ such measures as the quarantine of persons, animals, plants, fruits, water, or food products, as may be reasonably necessary for the purpose of securing compliance with this chapter; (c) In coordination with the Office of Highway Safety and the Police Department, with due consideration to the recommendations of other appropriate governmental agencies, formulate and execute plans and regulations for the control of traffic and the rapid and safe movement over public highways and roads of people, vehicles and materials for use in any incident response, and coordinate the activities of the departments and agencies of the Government concerned directly or indirectly with public highways and roads, in a manner that will best ensure the public safety during a threat to homeland security; (d) Coordinate the deployment of Government employees for emergency response operations; and (e) Exercise such other functions, powers and duties as are necessary to promote and secure the safety and protection of the civilian population and achieve the purposes of this chapter.
V.I. Code tit. 23, § 1051 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 23 - Internal Security and Public Order|Chapter 10 - Virgin Islands Territorial Emergency Management Act|Subchapter III - Emergency Management Assistance Compact|§ 1051. Short title

 This subchapter may be cited as the “Emergency Management Assistance Compact Act.”
V.I. Code tit. 23, § 1052 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 23 - Internal Security and Public Order|Chapter 10 - Virgin Islands Territorial Emergency Management Act|Subchapter III - Emergency Management Assistance Compact|§ 1052. Purposes and authorities

 This compact is made and entered into by and between the participating member states, which enact this compact, hereinafter called party states. For the purposes of this agreement, the term “states” is taken to mean the several states, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the District of Columbia, and all U.S. territorial possessions. The purpose of this compact is to provide for mutual assistance between the states entering into this compact in managing any emergency or disaster that is duly declared by the governor of the affected state(s), whether arising from natural disaster, technological hazard, man-made disaster, civil emergency aspects of resources shortages, community disorders, insurgency, or enemy attack. This compact shall also provide for mutual cooperation in emergency-related exercises, testing, or other training activities using equipment and personnel simulating performance of any aspect of the giving and receiving of aid by party states or subdivisions of party states during emergencies, such actions occurring outside actual declared emergency periods. Mutual assistance in this compact may include the use of states National Guard forces, either in accordance with the National Guard Mutual Assistance Compact or by mutual agreement between states.
V.I. Code tit. 23, § 1053 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 23 - Internal Security and Public Order|Chapter 10 - Virgin Islands Territorial Emergency Management Act|Subchapter III - Emergency Management Assistance Compact|§ 1053. General implementation

 Each party state entering into this compact recognizes many emergencies transcend political jurisdictional boundaries and that intergovernmental coordination is essential in managing these and other emergencies under this compact. Each state further recognizes that there will be emergencies which require immediate access and present procedures to apply outside resources to make a prompt and effective response to such an emergency. This is because few, if any, individual states have all the resources they may need in all types of emergencies or the capability of delivering resources to areas where emergencies exist. The prompt, full, and effective utilization of resources of the participating states, including any resources on hand or available from the Federal Government or any other source, that are essential to safety, care, and welfare of the people in the event of any emergency or disaster declared by a party state, shall be the underlying principle on which all articles of this compact shall be understood. On behalf of the governor of each state participating in the compact, the legally designated state official that is assigned responsibility for emergency management will be responsible for formulation of the appropriate interstate mutual aid plans and procedures necessary to implement this compact.
V.I. Code tit. 23, § 1054 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 23 - Internal Security and Public Order|Chapter 10 - Virgin Islands Territorial Emergency Management Act|Subchapter III - Emergency Management Assistance Compact|§ 1054. Party state responsibilities

 (a) It shall be the responsibility of each party state to formulate procedural plans and programs for interstate cooperation in the performance of the responsibilities listed in this section. In formulating such plans, and in carrying them out, the party states, insofar as practical, shall: (1) Review individual state hazards analyses and, to the extent reasonably possible, determine all those potential emergencies the party states might jointly suffer, whether due to natural disaster, technological hazard, man-made disaster, emergency aspects of resource shortages, civil disorders, insurgency, or enemy attack. (2) Review party states individual emergency plans and develop a plan that will determine the mechanism for the interstate management and provision of assistance concerning any potential emergency. (3) Develop interstate procedures to fill any identified gaps and to resolve any identified inconsistencies or overlaps in existing or developed plans. (4) Assist in warning communities adjacent to or crossing the state boundaries. (5) Protect and assure uninterrupted delivery of services, medicines, water, food, energy and fuel, search and rescue, and critical lifeline equipment, services, and resources, both human and material. (6) Inventory and set procedures for the interstate loan and delivery of human and material resources, together with procedures for reimbursement or forgiveness. (7) Provide, to the extent authorized by law, for temporary suspension of any statutes. (b) The authorized representative of a party state may request assistance of another party state by contacting the authorized representative of that state. The provisions of this agreement shall only apply to requests for assistance made by and to authorized representatives. Requests may be verbal or in writing. If verbal, the requests shall be confirmed in writing within 30 days of the verbal request. Requests shall provide the following information: (1) A description of the emergency service function for which assistance is needed, such as but not limited to fire services, law enforcement, emergency medical, transportation, communications, public works and engineering, building inspection, planning and information assistance, mass care, resource support, health and medical services, and search and rescue. (2) The amount and type of personnel, equipment, materials and supplies needed, and a reasonable estimate of the length of time they will be needed. (3) The specific place and time for staging of the assisting party's response and a point of contact at that location. (c) There shall be frequent consultation between state officials who have assigned emergency management responsibilities and other appropriate representatives of the party states with affected jurisdictions and the United States Government, with free exchange of information, plans, and resource records relating to emergency.
V.I. Code tit. 23, § 1055 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 23 - Internal Security and Public Order|Chapter 10 - Virgin Islands Territorial Emergency Management Act|Subchapter III - Emergency Management Assistance Compact|§ 1055. Limitations

 Any party state requested to render mutual aid or conduct exercises and training for mutual aid shall take such action as is necessary to provide and make available the resources covered by this compact in accordance with the terms hereof; provided that it is understood that the state rendering aid may withhold resources to the extent necessary to provide reasonable protection for such state. Each party state shall afford to the emergency forces of any party state, while operating within its state limits under the terms and conditions of this compact, the same powers except that of arrest unless specifically authorized by the receiving state, duties rights, and privileges as are afforded forces control the state in which they are performing emergency services. Emergency forces will continue under the command and control of their regular leaders, but the organizational units will come under the operational control of the emergency service authorities of the state receiving assistance. These conditions may be activated, as needed, only subsequent to a declaration of a state of emergency or disaster by the governor of the party state that is to receive assistance or commencement of exercises or training for mutual aid and shall continue so long as the exercises or training for mutual aid are in progress, the state of emergency or disaster remains in effect or loaned resources remain in the receiving state(s), whichever is longer.
V.I. Code tit. 23, § 1056 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 23 - Internal Security and Public Order|Chapter 10 - Virgin Islands Territorial Emergency Management Act|Subchapter III - Emergency Management Assistance Compact|§ 1056. Licenses and permits

 Whenever any person holds a license, certificate, or other permit issued by any state party to the compact evidencing the meeting of qualifications for professional, mechanical, or other skills, and when such assistance is requested by the receiving party state, such person shall be deemed licensed, certified, or permitted by the state requesting assistance to render aid involving such skill to meet a declared emergency or disaster, subject to such limitations and conditions as the governor of the requesting state may prescribe by executive order or otherwise.
V.I. Code tit. 23, § 1057 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 23 - Internal Security and Public Order|Chapter 10 - Virgin Islands Territorial Emergency Management Act|Subchapter III - Emergency Management Assistance Compact|§ 1057. Liability

 Officers or employees of a party state rendering aid in another state pursuant to this compact shall be considered agents of the requesting state for tort liability and immunity purposes; and no party state or its officers or employees rendering aid in another state pursuant to this compact shall be liable on account of any act or omission in good faith on the part of such forces while so engaged or on account of the maintenance or use of any equipment or supplies in connection therewith. Good faith in this section shall not include willful misconduct, gross negligence, or recklessness.
V.I. Code tit. 23, § 1058 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 23 - Internal Security and Public Order|Chapter 10 - Virgin Islands Territorial Emergency Management Act|Subchapter III - Emergency Management Assistance Compact|§ 1058. Supplementary agreements

 Inasmuch as it is probable that the pattern and detail of the machinery for mutual aid among two or more states may differ from that among the states that are party hereto, this instrument contains elements of a broad base common to all states, and nothing herein shall preclude any state from entering into supplementary agreements with another state or affect any other agreements already in force between states. Supplementary agreements may comprehend, but shall not be limited to, provisions or evacuation and reception of injured and other persons and the exchange of medical, fire, police, public utility, reconnaissance, welfare, transportation and communications personnel, and equipment and supplies.
V.I. Code tit. 23, § 1059 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 23 - Internal Security and Public Order|Chapter 10 - Virgin Islands Territorial Emergency Management Act|Subchapter III - Emergency Management Assistance Compact|§ 1059. Compensation

 Each party state shall provide for the payment of compensation and death benefits to injured members of the emergency forces of that state and representatives of deceased members of such forces in case such members sustain injuries or are killed while rendering aid pursuant to this compact, in the same manner and on the same terms as if the injury or death were sustained within their own state.
V.I. Code tit. 23, § 1060 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 23 - Internal Security and Public Order|Chapter 10 - Virgin Islands Territorial Emergency Management Act|Subchapter III - Emergency Management Assistance Compact|§ 1060. Reimbursement

 Any party state rendering aid in another state pursuant to this compact shall be reimbursed by the party state receiving such aid for any loss or damage to or expense incurred in the operation of any equipment and the provision of any service in answering a request for aid and for the cost incurred in connection with such requests; provided, that any aiding party state may assume in whole or in part such loss, damage, expense, or other cost, or may loan such equipment or donate such services to the receiving party state without charge or cost; and provided further, that any two or more party states may enter into supplementary agreements establishing a different allocation of costs among those states. Section 1059 expenses shall not be reimbursable under this provision.
V.I. Code tit. 23, § 1061 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 23 - Internal Security and Public Order|Chapter 10 - Virgin Islands Territorial Emergency Management Act|Subchapter III - Emergency Management Assistance Compact|§ 1061. Evacuation

 Plans for the orderly evacuation and interstate reception of portions of the civilian population as the result of any emergency or disaster of sufficient proportions to so warrant, shall be worked out and maintained between the party states and the emergency management/service directors of the various jurisdictions where any type of incident requiring evacuations might occur. Such plans shall be put into effect by request of the state from which evacuees come and shall include the manner of transporting such evacuees, the number of evacuees to be received in different areas, the manner in which food, clothing, housing, and medical care will be provided, the registration of the evacuees, the providing of facilities for the notification of relatives or friends, and the forwarding of such evacuees to other areas or the bringing in of additional materials, supplies, and all other relevant factors. Such plans shall provide that the party state receiving evacuees and the party state from which the evacuees come shall mutually agree as to reimbursement of out-of-pocket expenses incurred in receiving and caring for such evacuees, for expenditures for transportation, food, clothing, medicines and medical care, and like items. Such expenditures shall be reimbursed as agreed by the party state from which the evacuees come. After the termination of the emergency or disaster, the party state from which the evacuees come shall assume the responsibility for the ultimate support of repatriation of such evacuees.
V.I. Code tit. 23, § 1062 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 23 - Internal Security and Public Order|Chapter 10 - Virgin Islands Territorial Emergency Management Act|Subchapter III - Emergency Management Assistance Compact|§ 1062. Implementation

 (a) This compact shall become operative immediately upon its enactment into law by any two (2) states. Thereafter, this compact shall become effective as to any other state upon its enactment by such state. (b) Any party state may withdraw from this compact by enacting a statute repealing the same, but no such withdrawal shall take effect until 30 days after the governor of the withdrawing state has given notice in writing of such withdrawal to the governors of all other party states. Such action shall not relieve the withdrawing state from obligations assumed hereunder prior to the effective date of withdrawal. (c) Duly authenticated copies of this compact and of such supplementary agreements as may be entered into shall, at the time of their approval, be deposited with each of the party states and with the Federal Emergency Management Agency and other appropriate agencies of the United States Government.
V.I. Code tit. 23, § 1063 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 23 - Internal Security and Public Order|Chapter 10 - Virgin Islands Territorial Emergency Management Act|Subchapter III - Emergency Management Assistance Compact|§ 1063. Validity

 This chapter shall be construed to effectuate the purposes stated in section 1052 hereof. If any provision of this compact is declared unconstitutional, or the applicability thereof to any person or circumstances held invalid, the constitutionality of the remainder of this chapter and the applicability thereof to other provisions and circumstances shall not be affected thereby.
V.I. Code tit. 23, § 1064 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 23 - Internal Security and Public Order|Chapter 10 - Virgin Islands Territorial Emergency Management Act|Subchapter III - Emergency Management Assistance Compact|§ 1064. Additional provision

 Nothing in this compact shall authorize or permit the use of military force by the National Guard of a state at any place outside that state in any emergency for which the President is authorized by law to call into federal service the militia, or for any purpose for which the use of the Army or the Air Force would in the absence of express statutory authorization be prohibited under Section 1385 of title 18, United States Code.
V.I. Code tit. 23, § 1071 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 23 - Internal Security and Public Order|Chapter 10 - Virgin Islands Territorial Emergency Management Act|Subchapter IV - 911 Emergency System|§ 1071. “911” Definitions

 As used in this subchapter, unless the context otherwise requires: (a) “911 Service” means the telecommunication system which provides the user of the public telephone system the ability to reach a public safety answering point by dialing the digits, “9-1-1”. (b) “Public agency” means the Government of the Virgin Islands and any agency, department, or unit thereof or special purpose district located in whole or in part within the Virgin Islands which provides or has authority to provide ambulance, firefighting, law enforcement, medical or other emergency services. (c) “Public safety agency” means a functional division of a public agency which provides ambulance, firefighting, law enforcement, medical or other emergency services. (d) “Private safety entity” means a private entity which provides ambulance, firefighting, law enforcement, medical or other emergency services. (e) “Public safety answering point (PSAP)” means a communication facility operated on a 24-hour basis, assigned responsibility to receive 911 calls and, as appropriate, to directly dispatch emergency response services, or to transfer or relay emergency 911 calls to other public service agencies. It is the first point of reception by a public safety agency of a 911 call, and serves the jurisdiction in which it is located and other participating jurisdictions according to a specified operational policy. (f) “Direct dispatch method” means the method of responding to a telephone request for emergency service whereby the PSAP decides on the proper action to be taken and dispatches the appropriate emergency service unit. (g) “Relay method” means the method of responding to a telephone request for emergency service whereby a PSAP notes pertinent information and relays it to the appropriate public safety agency or other provider of emergency service for dispatch of an emergency service unit. (h) “Transfer method” means the method of responding to a telephone request for emergency service whereby a PSAP transfers the call directly to the appropriate public safety agency or other provider of emergency service for dispatch of an emergency service unit. (i) “VITEMA” means the Virgin Islands Territorial Emergency Management Agency established by this chapter. VITEMA is responsible for the administration of 911 service in the Virgin Islands. (j) “Automatic number identification (ANI)” means the system capability to identify the telephone number associated with the access line from which a call originates and provide a display of that number at a PSAP. (k) “Automatic location identification (ALI)” means the automatic display at the PSAP of the caller's telephone number, the address/location of the telephone and supplementary emergency services information of the location from which a call originates.
V.I. Code tit. 23, § 1072 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 23 - Internal Security and Public Order|Chapter 10 - Virgin Islands Territorial Emergency Management Act|Subchapter IV - 911 Emergency System|§ 1072. Methods of handling emergency telephone calls

 911 services shall be designed to meet the individual circumstances of the Islands of St. Croix, St. John, St. Thomas, and Water Island and the public agencies participating in the 911 system. However, standardized processes between the two call centers, one on St. Croix and one on St. Thomas, will ensure optimal service and back-up capability in case of high call volumes, or the temporary incapacity of one center due to catastrophic weather or other circumstances. Every system shall be designed so that a 911 call is processed by means of one of the methods defined in section 1071 of this chapter, namely, direct dispatch, relay, or transfer; provided, however, at least two of the specified methods shall be available for use by the PSAP receiving the call.