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V.I. Code tit. 19, § 412 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 19 - Health|Part II - Hospitals and Nursing Schools|Chapter 20 - Virgin Islands Revised Uniform Anatomical Gift|§ 412. Search and notification

 (a) The following persons shall make a reasonable search of an individual who the searcher reasonably believes is dead or near death for a document of gift or other information identifying the individual as a donor or as an individual who made a refusal: (1) a law enforcement officer, firefighter, paramedic, or other emergency rescuer finding the individual; and (2) if no other source of the information is immediately available, a hospital, as soon as practical after the individual's arrival at the hospital. (b) If a document of gift or a refusal to make an anatomical gift is located by the search required by subsection (a)(1) and the individual or deceased individual to whom it relates is taken to a hospital, the person responsible for conducting the search shall send the document of gift or refusal to the hospital. (c) A person is not subject to criminal or civil liability for failing to discharge the duties imposed by this section but may be subject to administrative sanctions.
V.I. Code tit. 19, § 413 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 19 - Health|Part II - Hospitals and Nursing Schools|Chapter 20 - Virgin Islands Revised Uniform Anatomical Gift|§ 413. Delivery of document of gift not required; right to examine

 (a) A document of gift need not be delivered during the donor's lifetime to be effective. (b) Upon or after an individual's death, a person in possession of a document of gift or a refusal to make an anatomical gift with respect to the individual shall allow examination and copying of the document of gift or refusal by a person authorized to make or object to the making of an anatomical gift with respect to the individual or by a person to which the gift could pass under section 411.
V.I. Code tit. 19, § 415 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 19 - Health|Part II - Hospitals and Nursing Schools|Chapter 20 - Virgin Islands Revised Uniform Anatomical Gift|§ 415. Coordination of procurement and use

 Each hospital in the Virgin Islands, after consultation with procurement organizations, shall establish agreements or affiliations for coordination of procurement and use of human bodies and parts.
V.I. Code tit. 19, § 416 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 19 - Health|Part II - Hospitals and Nursing Schools|Chapter 20 - Virgin Islands Revised Uniform Anatomical Gift|§ 416. Sale or purchase of parts prohibited

 (a) Except as otherwise provided in subsection (b), a person that knowingly, for valuable consideration, purchases or sells a part for transplantation or therapy if removal of a part from an individual is intended to occur after the individual’s death commits a felony and upon conviction is subject to a fine not exceeding $100,000 or imprisonment not exceeding five years, or both such fine and imprisonment. (b) A person may charge a reasonable amount for the removal, processing, preservation, quality control, storage, transportation, implantation, or disposal of a part.
V.I. Code tit. 19, § 417 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 19 - Health|Part II - Hospitals and Nursing Schools|Chapter 20 - Virgin Islands Revised Uniform Anatomical Gift|§ 417. Penalty

 Any person that, in order to obtain financial gain, intentionally falsifies, forges, conceals, defaces, or obliterates a document of gift, an amendment or revocation of a document of gift, or a refusal in order to obtain a financial gain commits a felony and upon conviction is subject to a fine not exceeding $50,000 or imprisonment not exceeding five years, or both such fine and imprisonment.
V.I. Code tit. 19, § 418 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 19 - Health|Part II - Hospitals and Nursing Schools|Chapter 20 - Virgin Islands Revised Uniform Anatomical Gift|§ 418. Immunity

 (a) A person that acts in accordance with this chapter or with the applicable anatomical gift law of another state or attempts in good faith to do so is not liable for the act in a civil action, criminal prosecution, or administrative proceeding. (b) Neither the person making an anatomical gift nor the donor’s estate is liable for any injury or damage that results from the making or use of the gift. (c) In determining whether an anatomical gift has been made, amended, or revoked under this chapter, a person may rely upon representations of the individuals listed in section 409(a)(2), (3), (4), (5), (6), (7), and (8) relating to the individual’s relationship to the donor or prospective donor, unless the person knows that the representation is untrue.
V.I. Code tit. 19, § 419 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 19 - Health|Part II - Hospitals and Nursing Schools|Chapter 20 - Virgin Islands Revised Uniform Anatomical Gift|§ 419. Law governing validity; choice of law as to execution of document of gift; presumption of validity

 (a) A document of gift is valid if executed in accordance with: (1) this chapter; (2) the laws of the state or country where it was executed; or (3) the laws of the state or country where the person making the anatomical gift was domiciled, has a place of residence, or was a national at the time the document of gift was executed. (b) If a document of gift is valid under this section, the law of the Virgin Islands governs the interpretation of the document of gift. (c) A person may presume that a document of gift or amendment of an anatomical gift is valid, unless that person knows that it was not validly executed or was revoked.
V.I. Code tit. 19, § 420 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 19 - Health|Part II - Hospitals and Nursing Schools|Chapter 20 - Virgin Islands Revised Uniform Anatomical Gift|§ 420. Donor registry

 (a) The Department of Health may establish or contract for the establishment of a donor registry. (b) The Virgin Islands Bureau of Motor Vehicles shall cooperate with any donor registry that the Department of Health establishes, contracts for, or recognizes for the purpose of transferring to the donor registry all relevant information regarding a donor’s making, amendment to, or revocation of an anatomical gift. (c) A donor registry must: (1) allow a donor or other person authorized under section 404 to include on the donor registry a statement or symbol that the donor has made, amended, or revoked an anatomical gift; (2) be accessible to a procurement organization to allow it to obtain relevant information on the donor registry to determine, at or near death of the donor or a prospective donor, whether the donor or prospective donor has made, amended, or revoked an anatomical gift; and (3) be accessible for purposes of paragraphs (1) and (2) seven days a week on a 24-hour basis. (d) Personally identifiable information on a donor registry about a donor or prospective donor may not be used or disclosed without the express consent of the donor, prospective donor, or the person that made the anatomical gift for any purpose other than to determine, at or near death of the donor or a prospective donor, whether the donor or prospective donor has made, amended, or revoked an anatomical gift. (e) This section does not prohibit any person from creating or maintaining a donor registry that is not established by or under contract with the Department of Health. However, the registry must comply with subsections (c) and (d).
V.I. Code tit. 19, § 421 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 19 - Health|Part II - Hospitals and Nursing Schools|Chapter 20 - Virgin Islands Revised Uniform Anatomical Gift|§ 421. Effect of anatomical gift on advance health-care directive

 (a) In this section: (1) “Advance health-care directive” means a power of attorney for health care or a record signed or authorized by a prospective donor containing the prospective donor’s direction concerning a health-care decision for the prospective donor. (2) “Declaration” means a record signed by a prospective donor specifying the circumstances under which a life support system may be withheld or withdrawn. (3) “Health-care decision” means any decision made regarding the health care of the prospective donor. (b) If a prospective donor has a declaration or advance health-care directive and the terms of the declaration or directive and the express or implied terms of a potential anatomical gift are in conflict with regard to the administration of measures necessary to ensure the medical suitability of a part for transplantation or therapy, the prospective donor’s attending physician and prospective donor shall confer to resolve the conflict. If the prospective donor is incapable of resolving the conflict, an agent acting under the prospective donor’s declaration or directive, or if none or the agent is not reasonably available, another person authorized by law other than this chapter to make health-care decisions on behalf of the prospective donor, shall act for the donor to resolve the conflict. The conflict must be resolved as expeditiously as possible. Information relevant to the resolution of the conflict may be obtained from the appropriate procurement organization and any other person authorized to make an anatomical gift for the prospective donor under section 409. Before resolution of the conflict, measures necessary to ensure the medical suitability of the part may not be withheld or withdrawn from the prospective donor if withholding or withdrawing the measures is not contraindicated by appropriate end-of-life care.
V.I. Code tit. 19, § 422 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 19 - Health|Part II - Hospitals and Nursing Schools|Chapter 20 - Virgin Islands Revised Uniform Anatomical Gift|§ 422. Cooperation between medical examiner and procurement organization

 (a) A medical examiner and a procurement organization shall cooperate to maximize the opportunity to recover anatomical gifts for the purpose of transplantation, therapy, research, or education. (b) If a medical examiner receives notice from a procurement organization that an anatomical gift might be available or was made with respect to a decedent whose body is under the jurisdiction of the medical examiner and a post-mortem examination is going to be performed, unless medical examiner denies recovery in accordance with section 423, the medical examiner or designee shall conduct a post-mortem examination of the body or the part in a manner and within a time period compatible with its preservation for the purposes of the gift. (c) A part may not be removed from the body of a decedent under the jurisdiction of a medical examiner for transplantation, therapy, research, or education unless the part is the subject of an anatomical gift. The body of a decedent under the jurisdiction of the medical examiner may not be delivered to a person for research or education, unless the body is the subject of an anatomical gift. This subsection does not preclude a medical examiner from performing the medicolegal investigation upon the body or parts of a decedent under the jurisdiction of the medical examiner.
V.I. Code tit. 19, § 424 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 19 - Health|Part II - Hospitals and Nursing Schools|Chapter 20 - Virgin Islands Revised Uniform Anatomical Gift|§ 424. Uniformity of application and construction

 In applying and construing this uniform act, consideration must be given to the need to promote uniformity of the law with respect to its subject matter among states that enact it.
V.I. Code tit. 19, § 425 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 19 - Health|Part II - Hospitals and Nursing Schools|Chapter 20 - Virgin Islands Revised Uniform Anatomical Gift|§ 425. Relation to electronic signatures in global and national commerce act

 This act modifies, limits, and supersedes the Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act, 15 U.S.C. Section 7001 et seq., but does not modify, limit, or supersede section 101(a) of that act, 15 U.S.C. Section 7001, or authorize electronic delivery of any of the notices described in section 103(b) of that act, 15 U.S.C. Section 7003(b).
V.I. Code tit. 19, § 501 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 19 - Health|Part III - Food and Drugs|Chapter 25 - Food Standards|§ 501. Adulterated food or drink

 Any mix, frozen dessert or soft drink which contains any unwholesome substance shall be deemed adulterated and/or misbranded. No person shall within the Virgin Islands manufacture, freeze, sell, offer or expose for sale, or have in possession, with intent to sell, any mix, frozen dessert or soft drink which is adulterated or misbranded.
V.I. Code tit. 19, § 502 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 19 - Health|Part III - Food and Drugs|Chapter 25 - Food Standards|§ 502. Regulation of livestock slaughtering

 The slaughter of livestock, including poultry, for sale in the Virgin Islands, and the inspection of such livestock prior to slaughter, shall be conducted in accordance with regulations promulgated by the Commissioner of Health.
V.I. Code tit. 19, § 503 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 19 - Health|Part III - Food and Drugs|Chapter 25 - Food Standards|§ 503. Examination of persons handling meat

 No person suffering from any active communicable or infectious disease shall be employed in a slaughterhouse or other meat handling establishment. All persons employed in the handling of meat or meat products shall submit to a routine medical examination by the Commissioner of Health, or by a qualified physician designated by the Commissioner, at least once annually to determine their freedom from such disease. Such person shall obtain a certificate of health issued by the medical examiner.
V.I. Code tit. 19, § 504 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 19 - Health|Part III - Food and Drugs|Chapter 25 - Food Standards|§ 504. Meat standards

 (a) The standard for the inspection of live animals, carcasses and meat, and for judging their fitness for food and their disposal if infected shall be those prescribed by regulations issued by the Commissioner of Health. (b) All meats or meat products stored, transported, offered for sale or sold in the Virgin Islands shall be subject to inspection and reinspection at any and all times by the Commissioner of Health. During transportation all meat and meat products shall be protected from insects, rodents, and other vermin, dust or other contamination. Meat markets, market stands, groceries and all other places in which meat and meat products are sold, offered for sale and stored shall conform to all of the requirements of sanitation as provided in regulations issued by the Commissioner of Health.
V.I. Code tit. 19, § 506 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 19 - Health|Part III - Food and Drugs|Chapter 25 - Food Standards|§ 506. Regulation of meat establishments; penalties

 (a) All retail or other meat establishments and premises on or in which any meat or meat products are prepared or handled for public consumption shall be maintained in a sanitary condition and in accordance with regulations prescribed by the Commissioner of Health and approved by the Governor. These establishments shall be subject to inspection at any time. (b) Whoever violates any of the regulations prescribed under subsection (a) shall be fined not more than $25 or his license to sell shall be withdrawn or his shop closed until it is properly cleaned to comply with the regulations.
V.I. Code tit. 19, § 507 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 19 - Health|Part III - Food and Drugs|Chapter 25 - Food Standards|§ 507. Bottled mineral or spring water

 (a) It shall be unlawful for any person, partnership, association or corporation to manufacture, bottle, sell, offer for sale, or have in possession with intent to sell, or for the purpose of selling, in the Virgin Islands, any artificial or natural mineral, spring, or other bottled water, for drinking purposes, which is impure, or bears evidence of potential pollution, or the use of which will be injurious or detrimental to the public health. (b) No person, partnership, association, or corporation shall manufacture, bottle, sell, or offer for sale in the Virgin Islands any such water, without first having secured an annual permit therefor from the Department of Health; said permit shall be posted in a permanent and conspicuous place. The Department of Health shall have authority, after hearing, upon notice, to revoke any permit or permits at any time, when, after a thorough investigation and examination of any such water so manufactured, bottled, sold, or offered for sale by any person, partnership, association or corporation, it shall appear that such water is impure, or bears evidence of potential pollution, or the use thereof will be injurious or detrimental to public health. An Appeal from the action of the Department of Health in revoking any such permit or permits may be taken to the Superior Court of the Virgin Islands. (c) Bottles containing water to be sold for human consumption shall be sealed by the party filling the bottles in such a way that the seal must be broken to open the bottles. (d) The Department of Health shall have authority to inspect the premises used by any person, partnership, association, or corporation in the manufacturing, bottling, selling or offering for sale any such waters, and to procure, by purchase or otherwise, samples thereof for inspection and examination. The Commissioner of Health is authorized to make and promulgate such rules and regulations as shall be necessary, reasonable and appropriate for the effective administration and enforcement of the provisions of this section. (e) Any person, partnership, association, or corporation, violating or failing to comply with any of the provisions of this section, or any such rules and regulations, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon conviction thereof, forfeit his or its permit, or pay a penalty not to exceed $2,000, or both, at the discretion of the court. If the violation is by a partnership, association, or corporation, the members of such partnership or association, or the officers and directors of such corporation, and agents and employees with guilty knowledge of the fact, shall be deemed guilty of a violation of the provisions of this section to the same extent as though said violation was committed by them personally.
V.I. Code tit. 19, § 509 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 19 - Health|Part III - Food and Drugs|Chapter 25 - Food Standards|§ 509. The Virgin Islands Food Code

 (a) Notwithstanding any other law, the Virgin Islands Department of Health shall adopt, by reference, the 2001 Edition of the Food Code, Recommendations of the United States Public Health Service/Food and Drug Administration and any subsequent editions, supplements, and amendments thereto, as published by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, Food and Drug Administration. (b) This Act and the 2001 Edition of the Food Code, three copies of which shall be kept in the office of the Lieutenant Governor of the Virgin Islands being marked and designated as the Food Code, 2001 Recommendations of the United States Public Health Service/Food and Drug Administration as published by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, Food and Drug Administration be, and is hereby adopted as, the Food Code of the Virgin Islands; for regulating the design, construction, management and operation of food establishments, and providing for plans submission and approval and the issuance of permits and collection of fees therefore by the Virgin Islands Department of Health. (c) Within sixty days of the enactment of this Act, the Commissioner of Health shall promulgate rules and regulations specifying fines and penalties for violations of the Food Code of the Virgin Islands which shall be submitted to the Legislature for review and adoption. (d) The Food Code of the Virgin Islands and the rules, regulations, provisions, requirements, orders, and matters established and adopted hereby shall take effect and be in full force and effect ninety (90) days after the passage of this Act.
V.I. Code tit. 19, § 542 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 19 - Health|Part III - Food and Drugs|Chapter 27 - Milk and Milk Products|§ 542. Purpose; intent

 (a) Purpose. It is hereby declared that the purpose of this chapter is to protect, preserve and promote the public health and well-being of the people of the Virgin islands, to minimize the incidence of communicable diseases and to regulate the inspection of dairy farms, milk and milk product plants and provide for the examination, labeling, pasteurization, distribution and sale of milk and milk products. It is hereby further declared that the purpose of this chapter is to: (1) Establish minimum chemical, bacteriological and temperature standards for milk and milk products and an adequate level of operation and maintenance and provision for the administration and enforcement thereof. (2) Ensure, without undue burden on either the regulatory agency or the dairy industry, that milk and milk products sold or offered for sale in the territory of the Virgin Islands are produced under sanitary conditions, are wholesome and fit for human consumption, and are correctly labeled as to grade, quality, and source of production. (3) Encourage uniformity and a high level of sanitation and quality control in milk production and distribution practices in the territory. (4) Facilitate the shipment and acceptance of milk and milk products produced in the Virgin Islands of high sanitary quality in interstate and intrastate commerce, including interstate conveyances including, air carriers and cruise ships. (5) Ensure the normal flow of fresh wholesome milk and milk products from the farmer to the consumer, and the viability of dairy farms and milk and milk products processing plants in the Virgin Islands. (b) Intent. It is the intent of the Legislature to: (1) Eliminate, to the extent practicable, overlapping and unnecessary inspections of dairy farms and milk plants which may be performed by any agency of local government. (2) Pay for the regulation of milk and milk products, except as otherwise provided, through the assessment of permit fees upon Milk Plants and Milk Distributors, assuring that enterprises importing milk into the Virgin Islands pay a proportion of the cost of this enforcement. (3) It is not the intent of the Legislature to limit the authority of any agency of state or local government to take immediate action incident to the production, processing, or distribution of milk and milk products when such action is necessary to protect the public health.