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V.I. Code tit. 23, § 1519 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 23 - Internal Security and Public Order|Chapter 19 - National Guard|Subchapter I - General Provisions|§ 1519. Calls of the Virgin Islands National Guard into Territorial Service

 (a) Whenever it becomes necessary, in case of disaster emergency, invasion, insurrection, or rebellion or imminent danger thereof, or to prevent or suppress lawless violence, or whenever the public safety or welfare shall require, the Commander-in-Chief may issue an order to the Adjutant General to mobilize into Territorial Active Military Service such units and/or individuals of the Virgin Islands National Guard as may be necessary to maintain or restore public order and to guarantee the safety of life and property. However, the order authorized under this subsection, if not in writing, shall be reduced to writing not more than 48 hours after the order is issued. (b) The Commander-in-Chief or the Adjutant General may order into Territorial Inactive Military Service such units or individuals of the Virgin Islands National Guard, or both, to perform such ceremonial functions as may be required, including but not limited to, funeral and ceremonial details. Such members and officers shall receive a stipend for such service in accordance with section 1517 of this chapter.
V.I. Code tit. 23, § 1520 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 23 - Internal Security and Public Order|Chapter 19 - National Guard|Subchapter I - General Provisions|§ 1520. Responsibility of Adjutant General

 The Adjutant General shall command all units and members of the National Guard of the Virgin Islands as may be ordered into Territorial Active Military service under section 1519. Subject to the direction of the Governor, the Adjutant General may take whatever action he considers to be necessary to carry out the assigned mission.
V.I. Code tit. 23, § 1521 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 23 - Internal Security and Public Order|Chapter 19 - National Guard|Subchapter I - General Provisions|§ 1521. Character of the function of officers and enlisted men of the National Guard of the Virgin Islands in Territorial Active Military Service

 Officers and members of the National Guard of the Virgin Islands in Territorial Active Military Service shall exercise all the powers, duties and responsibilities of Police Officers as authorized by the laws of the Virgin Islands.
V.I. Code tit. 23, § 1522 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 23 - Internal Security and Public Order|Chapter 19 - National Guard|Subchapter I - General Provisions|§ 1522. Authority of Governor for the attachment of articles and to order the closing of establishments

 Whenever the Governor orders part or all of the military forces of the Virgin Islands into Territorial Active Military Service under section 1519 he may, by written order— (1) Direct the Adjutant General or other appropriate authority to seize arms, ammunition, explosives, incendiary material, and any other property that may be required by the military forces. (2) Prohibit the sale, exchange, loan or donation, during the emergency of arms, ammunition, explosives, gasoline, incendiary material or alcoholic beverages, and the closing of any establishment in which any such property is found. (3) Declare a curfew, during such periods and with respect to such areas and persons as in his discretion the public safety requires. (4) Any other powers authorized by law. Upon termination of the emergency, compensation shall be paid by the Government of the Virgin Islands for the loss, damage, or destruction of any private property taken for Government purposes during the emergency.
V.I. Code tit. 23, § 1523 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 23 - Internal Security and Public Order|Chapter 19 - National Guard|Subchapter I - General Provisions|§ 1523. Exemption from juror service

 Every officer or member of the National Guard of the Virgin Islands shall, while in the Territorial Active Military Service, be exempt from jury duty.
V.I. Code tit. 23, § 1524 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 23 - Internal Security and Public Order|Chapter 19 - National Guard|Subchapter I - General Provisions|§ 1524. Leaves of absence to governmental employees

 (a) An officer or employee of the Government of the Virgin Islands, its agencies, authorities and public corporations, is entitled to leave without loss in pay, time or performance or efficiency rating for each day, not in excess of 30 days in a calendar year in which he is on federal active duty, or training duty as a Reserve of the Armed Forces, or a member of the National Guard. (b) An officer or employee of the Government of the Virgin Islands, its agencies, authorities and public corporations, is entitled to leave without loss in pay, time or performance or efficiency rating for each day in which he is on Territorial active military service. (c) An officer or employee of the Government of the Virgin Islands, its agencies, authorities and public corporations, who is on federal active duty, or training duty as a reserve of the Armed Forces, or a member of the National Guard, in excess of 30 days in a calendar year, is entitled to the difference in salary between the pay received from the military and his salary as an officer or employee of the Government of the Virgin Islands, if the military salary is not greater than the Government of the Virgin Islands salary. Such an officer or employee incurs no loss of time, performance or efficiency rating for each day of active duty or training duty.
V.I. Code tit. 23, § 1525 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 23 - Internal Security and Public Order|Chapter 19 - National Guard|Subchapter I - General Provisions|§ 1525. Leaves of absence to employees of private enterprise

 A person in the employ of a private employer shall, upon request, be granted a leave of absence by his employer for the period required to perform Territorial Active Military Service. Upon his release from that service, or upon his discharge from hospitalization incident to that service, such employee shall be permitted to return to his position with such seniority, status, pay grade and vacation as he would have had if he had not been absent for such purposes. He shall report for work at the beginning of his next regularly scheduled working period after the calendar day following his release, or within a reasonable time thereafter if delayed return is due to factors beyond the employee's control. Failure to report for work at such next regularly scheduled working period shall make the employee subject to the conduct rules of the employer pertaining to explanations and discipline with respect to absence from scheduled work. If the employee is not qualified to perform the duties of his position by reason of disability sustained during Territorial Active Military Service, but is qualified to perform the duties of any other position in the employ of the employer or his successor in interest, he shall be restored by that employer or successor to such other position as will provide him like seniority, status, and pay grade, or the nearest approximation thereof consistent with the circumstances in his case.
V.I. Code tit. 23, § 1526 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 23 - Internal Security and Public Order|Chapter 19 - National Guard|Subchapter I - General Provisions|§ 1526. Failure to report for duty; penalties

 Every member of the National Guard of the Virgin Islands who Guard of the Virgin Islands who fails to report for duty to his Commanding Officer on the date and time prescribed by the Commander-in-Chief to report for duty in the Territorial Active Military Service or for duty other than the Territorial Active Military Service and all persons subject to the provisions of this chapter, who having been duly summoned, fail to appear without a valid cause to justify their nonappearance in the cases as set forth above, shall be deemed as absent without authorization or as deserters from duty.
V.I. Code tit. 23, § 1527 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 23 - Internal Security and Public Order|Chapter 19 - National Guard|Subchapter I - General Provisions|§ 1527. Matter not covered by this Part

 All matters relative to the organization, discipline and direction of the National Guard of the Virgin Islands, not otherwise provided for in this Code, shall be governed by the regulations which shall be promulgated by the Governor.
V.I. Code tit. 23, § 1528 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 23 - Internal Security and Public Order|Chapter 19 - National Guard|Subchapter I - General Provisions|§ 1528. Reports to the Commissioner of Finance of the Government of the Virgin Islands

 The National Guard of the Virgin Islands shall render to the Commissioner of Finance of the Government of the Virgin Islands the same reports and statements relative to funds and properties as are required from departments and offices of the Government of the Virgin Islands.
V.I. Code tit. 23, § 1529 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 23 - Internal Security and Public Order|Chapter 19 - National Guard|Subchapter I - General Provisions|§ 1529. Property exemption from attachment

 The uniforms, arms, ammunition, and equipment of every officer and member of the National Guard of the Virgin Islands shall Guard of the Virgin Islands shall be exempt from execution on any writ of attachment.
V.I. Code tit. 23, § 1530 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 23 - Internal Security and Public Order|Chapter 19 - National Guard|Subchapter I - General Provisions|§ 1530. Power of attorney

 Any member or officer of the National Guard of the Virgin Islands may give a power of attorney to be exercised during the period which the donor shall be on Territorial Active Military Duty or Federal Active Duty. Such a power of attorney shall continue in full force and effect until revoked by the donor or by operation of law. The donee of such a power of attorney may act for and represent the donor to the extent as authorized in such power of attorney provided that nothing in this section shall authorize a donee of a power of attorney given by a minor to sell, mortgage or dispose of the property, real or personal, of such minor.
V.I. Code tit. 23, § 1531 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 23 - Internal Security and Public Order|Chapter 19 - National Guard|Subchapter I - General Provisions|§ 1531. Discrimination because of employment; penalties

 (a) In addition to any penalty or liability under any other law, any person who willfully deprives a member or officer of his employment by another, obstructs him or his employer in respect to his trade, business or employment because of his affiliation with the National Guard of the Virgin Islands, or because of his necessary absence from business in performance of such duty as such, and any person who willfully violates either sections 1524 or 1525 or both of this title shall be punished by a fine of not more than five hundred dollars, or by imprisonment for not more than six months, or both. (b) Any officer or employee of the Government of the Virgin Islands, its agencies, authorities and public corporations who violates section 1524 of this title shall be subject to appropriate administrative discipline, including, when circumstances warrant, suspension from duty without pay or removal from office.
V.I. Code tit. 23, § 1551 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 23 - Internal Security and Public Order|Chapter 19 - National Guard|Subchapter II - Rights and Liabilities of Members and Officers|§ 1551. Uniform Code of Military Justice; appellate review

 The Uniform Code of Military Justice of the United States (Title 10, U.S. Code, section 801 et seq., as amended) and all decisions rendered by appellate authorities thereunder shall govern the operation of the National Guard of the Virgin Islands; provided Guard of the Virgin Islands; provided however that appellate review of offenses committed by officers and members performing active Territorial Military Duty shall be vested in the Attorney General of the Virgin Islands and the Commander-in-Chief.
V.I. Code tit. 23, § 1552 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 23 - Internal Security and Public Order|Chapter 19 - National Guard|Subchapter III - Specific Provisions Regarding Members and Officers|§ 1552. National Guard acting as peace officers

 Members and officers of the National Guard of the Virgin Islands while on active military duty shall, when so directed by the Adjutant General with the approval of the Governor, be peace officers within the meaning of 5 Virgin Islands Code § 3561 and shall exercise and possess all of the powers of peace officers under the laws of the Virgin Islands.
V.I. Code tit. 23, § 1553 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 23 - Internal Security and Public Order|Chapter 19 - National Guard|Subchapter III - Specific Provisions Regarding Members and Officers|§ 1553. Liability of members and officers; attorney's fees and court costs incurred on active military duty, payment

 (a) No member or officer of the National Guard of the Virgin Islands shall be liable, either civilly or criminally, for any damage to property or injury to any person, including death resulting therefrom, caused by him or by his order, while performing any military duty lawfully ordered under any provision of this chapter, unless the act or order causing such damage or injury was manifestly beyond the scope of the authority of such member or officer and except as otherwise provided by section 3408 of Title 33 of this Code. (b) Such attorney's fees, as shall be directed by the courts of the Virgin Islands and court costs incurred in any case against a member or an officer of the National Guard of the Virgin Islands arising out of any act committed in the line of official duty while on active military duty, shall be paid by the Government of the Virgin Islands.
V.I. Code tit. 23, § 1554 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 23 - Internal Security and Public Order|Chapter 19 - National Guard|Subchapter III - Specific Provisions Regarding Members and Officers|§ 1554. Personnel Merit System not applicable to National Guard

 Except as otherwise provided herein, the provisions of Title 3, chapter 25 of the Virgin Islands Code shall not be applicable to members and officers of the National Guard of the Virgin Islands.
V.I. Code tit. 23, § 1555 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 23 - Internal Security and Public Order|Chapter 19 - National Guard|Subchapter III - Specific Provisions Regarding Members and Officers|§ 1555. Insurance coverage for National Guard members and officers

 Members and officers of the National Guard of the Virgin Islands shall be considered government officers and employees for the purposes of Title 3, chapter 25, subchapter VIII of the Virgin Islands Code, and shall be entitled to all rights and benefits provided thereunder.
V.I. Code tit. 23, § 1556 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 23 - Internal Security and Public Order|Chapter 19 - National Guard|Subchapter III - Specific Provisions Regarding Members and Officers|§ 1556. Retirement pension

 (a) Every member and officer of the National Guard of the Virgin Islands who meets the requirements hereinafter set forth shall receive, commencing at age fifty-five, a pension of one hundred dollars per month for twenty years' military service. The requirements for the pension are that each member or officer shall: (1) Have served and qualified for at least twenty years' military service in a federally recognized unit of the National Guard or in a regular component of the Armed Services of the United States. (2) Have at least fifteen years of the aforementioned service as a member or officer of the National Guard of the Virgin Islands National Guard of the Virgin Islands and the final or last ten years of service immediately prior to retirement shall have been in the National Guard of the Virgin Islands. (3) Have received an honorable discharge from the National Guard of the Virgin Islands. (b) Eligibility for retirement under this section shall be in addition to any other retirement that a member or officer is eligible to receive provided that: (1) Any person receiving retirement pay from the federal government as a result of length of service, age, or physical disability retirement from any of the regular components of the Armed Services of the United States shall not be eligible for a pension under this section; and (2) Any person who elects to retire and is retired under the provisions of this section and who is eligible to receive retirement pay from the Employees Retirement System of the Government of the Virgin Islands shall not include, in determining eligibility and benefits for retirement from the System, service performed as a member or officer of the National Guard of the Virgin Islands. (c) Payment to a retired member or officer of the National Guard will cease at the death of the member or officer and no payment will be made to beneficiaries or to the decedent's estate. (d) The provisions of this section shall be administered by the Adjutant General of the National Guard of the Virgin Islands. The Adjutant General shall not employ additional personnel to administer this section. (e) The provisions of this section shall apply only to members and officers of the National Guard of the Virgin Islands serving Guard of the Virgin Islands serving on the effective date of this law and thereafter.
V.I. Code tit. 23, § 1556a (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 23 - Internal Security and Public Order|Chapter 19 - National Guard|Subchapter III - Specific Provisions Regarding Members and Officers|§ 1556a. Virgin Islands National Veterans Guard

 Every member of the National Guard of the Virgin Islands who retires from the Guard with twenty years of military service shall be entitled to all benefits granted under Virgin Islands law to veterans of the armed services.
V.I. Code tit. 23, § 1557 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 23 - Internal Security and Public Order|Chapter 19 - National Guard|Subchapter III - Specific Provisions Regarding Members and Officers|§ 1557. Re-enlistment bonus

 (a) Subject to rules and regulations promulgated pursuant to section 1515 of this title, any member or officer of the National Guard of the Virgin Islands who has completed an initial period of enlistment in the National Guard of the Virgin Islands and who Guard of the Virgin Islands and who re-enlists or voluntarily extends his enlistment for a period of at least three years shall be entitled to a bonus of $100. (b) No member or officer shall be paid more than one bonus under this section. (c) A member or officer who voluntarily, or because of misconduct, does not complete the term of enlistment for which a bonus was paid under this section shall refund that percentage of the bonus that the unexpired part of his ordered additional obligated service is to the total re-enlistment or extension period for which the bonus was paid. (d) Bonus payments authorized by this section may be paid in either a lump sum or in installments, as determined by the Adjutant General. (e) The Adjutant General shall submit a report no later than March 15th of each year, to the Legislature of the Virgin Islands regarding the operation of the bonus payments authorized by this section. The report shall state the number of members or officers of the National Guard of the Virgin Islands who at the time of the report are serving a term of enlistment for which a bonus has been or is being paid under this section, the total amount expended during the year preceding the report for bonus payments under this section, and such other data necessary to monitor the effectiveness of the bonuses authorized by this section and to determine the necessity for continuance of said bonuses.
V.I. Code tit. 23, § 1558 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 23 - Internal Security and Public Order|Chapter 19 - National Guard|Subchapter III - Specific Provisions Regarding Members and Officers|§ 1558. Appropriations

 There are hereby authorized to be appropriated annually, out of any available funds in the Treasury of the Virgin Islands, for deposit in the Virgin Islands National Guard Fund, such sums as may be necessary to meet the requirements of sections 1556 and 1557 of this title.
V.I. Code tit. 24, § 80 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 24 - Labor|Chapter 4 - Full Employment Administration|Subchapter I - Virgin Islands Full Employment Administration|§ 80. Short title

 The chapter shall be known and cited as the “Full Employment Act of 1972”.
V.I. Code tit. 24, § 81 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 24 - Labor|Chapter 4 - Full Employment Administration|Subchapter I - Virgin Islands Full Employment Administration|§ 81. Definitions

 As used in this chapter, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise, the following terms shall have the following meanings: (1) “Administration” means the Virgin Islands Full Employment Administration. (2) “Administrator” means the Administrator of the Administration. (3) “Board” means the Advisory Board to the Administration. (4) “Job training and placement services” or “job training and placement programs” mean any job training, placement, or related services administered or supervised by the Administration or provided under contract with the Administration, directly calculated to increase employability or improve the employment of the individual. (5) “Unemployed person” means a person who lacks employment, suffers economic problems because of lack of employment, capable of becoming employable becoming employable through the services under this chapter. (6) “Underemployed person” means a person who has bona fide employment by whose employment, be it full time, or part time, or intermittent, is insufficient to provide an income to avoid economic deprivation. (7) “Economic deprivation” means an annual income insufficient to enable the family or individual to meet a table of income criteria adopted by the Administrator with the approval of the Governor. (8) “Eligible person” means any bona fide resident of the Virgin Islands, sixteen years of age and over, for whom suitable employment opportunities are or may be substantially limited because of lack of skills needed to obtain suitable full-time employment or because existing or prospective conditions in the labor market reduce or limit employment opportunities in his present occupation or skill and who has been unable to find employment through normal employment channels. (9) “Fund” means the Employment Development Fund. (10) “Economically displaced persons” means persons who have been subjected to an involuntary layoff or separation from their employment, and who have not quit voluntarily or been dismissed for disciplinary reasons. (11) “Training programs” mean any prevocational, institutional, on-the-job training or related program for occupational training or retraining of training program participants. (12) “Training program sponsor” means any public or private institution of learning, employer, trade association, labor organization, or other public or private agency or organization, including the Administration, which the Administrator determines is qualified to conduct one or more training programs. (13) “Training program participant” means an eligible person who has been admitted to a training program. (14) “Training program costs” mean the aggregate of costs actually incurred by a training program and approved by the Administrator as reasonable and necessary for the development and carrying out of a training program.