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V.I. Code tit. 3, § 318 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 3 - Executive|Chapter 18 - Department of Sports, Parks and Recreation|Subchapter II - The Virgin Islands Sports Commission|§ 318. Financial accountability

 (a) The Commission shall institute a system of financial accountability and expenditures for the development of sports and recreation in the Territory. (b) The Commission shall: (1) assume a leadership role in identifying and seeking financial support for sports and recreation programs from the federal government, the Virgin Islands Government, the public and private sector; (2) Deleted. (3) collaborate with sports organizations and coordinate their plans to undertake fund-raising programs; and (4) Assist in identifying sports that have high potential as viable economic opportunities for the territory. (c) The Commissioner of the Department of Sports, Parks and Recreations shall administer the monies received by the Commission either through appropriations from the Legislature of the Virgin Islands, donations or through fundraisers by the Commission to fund the activities of the Commission.
V.I. Code tit. 3, § 319 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 3 - Executive|Chapter 18 - Department of Sports, Parks and Recreation|Subchapter II - The Virgin Islands Sports Commission|§ 319. Training and development

 (a) The Commission shall ensure that a Training and Development program is established for the enhancement of Virgin Islanders to pursue higher goals in sports, education, recreation and wellness. (b) The Commission shall endeavor to adequately improve the standard of sports and efficiency in implementing programs, training and development opportunities which must be provided to sports practitioners. To attain these ideals, the Commission shall give attention to development of human resources and to the following: (1) Establishment of a program for the provision of technical support for approved national sporting bodies on an agreed criterion; (2) Providing scholarships for sports persons to allow for exposure at a higher level of performance and to encourage professional development through education; (3) Maintaining and administering in the Territory a comprehensive health insurance program for sports organizations’ personnel, athletes and other technical personnel; and (4) Compensation of athletes who win medals for the Virgin Islands. (c) Training for officials to enhance their capacity to officiate and administer sporting activities; (d) Acquiring and developing resource material such as manuals, coaching kits and electronic aids, which will assist in improving knowledge and advancing the technical skills of sport persons; and (e) Exposing national sport representatives to specialized personal development activities which will assist in their overall development.
V.I. Code tit. 3, § 320 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 3 - Executive|Chapter 18 - Department of Sports, Parks and Recreation|Subchapter II - The Virgin Islands Sports Commission|§ 320. Coverage and promotion

 The Commission shall encourage the wider coverage and promotion of sports activities and shall undertake to advocate for: (1) Increase in the publicity and exposure to sporting activities that highlight the endeavor of our sports persons and to stimulate public support and participation; (2) Assurance that all media houses play an active role in promoting sports as a healthy lifestyle and encourage the participation of all; (3) National sport organizations and affiliates to undertake marketing and promotional activities aimed at increasing and sustaining spectator attendance at sporting activities; (4) Educational activities to be developed to instruct the general public about the rules and skills of different sporting disciplines; (5) Media houses to record sporting events and develop structured sports programs; and (6) Media houses to pay due regard to the rights of the sporting bodies for their events.
V.I. Code tit. 3, § 321 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 3 - Executive|Chapter 18 - Department of Sports, Parks and Recreation|Subchapter II - The Virgin Islands Sports Commission|§ 321. Sporting activities within the school system

 (a) The Commission shall promote its recognition that it is a fundamental objective of the Virgin Islands Education System to nurture an enquiring mind in a fit body and the future emergence of sports elite will depend on the development of a structured approach to sports in the primary, secondary and university levels of education. The Virgin Islands National Sports Policy must therefore seek to ensure that: (1) Sports are included as an integral part of the school curriculum and that a teaching manual be designed for physical education in schools, public and private; (2) Sports are promoted as a viable career opportunity; (3) All schools establish a structured sporting program which incorporates every student unless medically certified; (4) Physical education is taught at all levels of the education system; and (5) Every physical education teacher is duly certified. (b) The Virgin Islands Sports Commission shall encourage the wider coverage and promotion of sports activities and shall undertake to advocate for: (1) Increase in the publicity and exposure to sporting activities that highlight the endeavor of our sports persons and to stimulate public support and participation; (2) National sport organizations and affiliates to undertake marketing and promotional activities aimed at increasing and sustaining spectator attendance at sporting activities; (3) Educational activities to be developed to instruct the general public about the rules and skills of different sporting disciplines; and (4) Media houses to be encouraged to record sporting events and develop structured sports programs.
V.I. Code tit. 3, § 322 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 3 - Executive|Chapter 18 - Department of Sports, Parks and Recreation|Subchapter II - The Virgin Islands Sports Commission|§ 322. Long term goals

 The Commission shall advocate for high standards and safety, and improved performance as part of a National Sports Policy. The Sports Policy must seek to ensure that: (a) Facilities of an acceptable standard are established to allow for the development of a range of sports disciplines; (b) A proper system of management is established for the management and maintenance of sporting facilities; (c) Government ensures the availability of recreational space at schools, communities and housing developments; and (d) A special package of incentives is provided to the private sector for the establishment of sporting infrastructure.
V.I. Code tit. 3, § 323 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 3 - Executive|Chapter 18 - Department of Sports, Parks and Recreation|Subchapter II - The Virgin Islands Sports Commission|§ 323. Promoting sports within the private sector

 (a) The Commission shall promote a supportive atmosphere that inspires and facilitates the emergence of elite performers. The Commission shall encourage greater recognition to sports personalities and administrators by Government, national sporting bodies and affiliates, the private sector and community organizations. (b) The Commission shall work towards national representatives and teams to have free access to all facilities to prepare for approved international competitions; (c) Special consideration must be given to outstanding national sports representatives to assist in securing employment and other benefits; (d) All departments, agencies and instrumentalities of the Government of the Virgin Islands shall cooperate with the Commission in implementing the Virgin Islands Sports Policy.
V.I. Code tit. 3, § 324 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 3 - Executive|Chapter 18 - Department of Sports, Parks and Recreation|Subchapter II - The Virgin Islands Sports Commission|§ 324. Conflict of laws

 If there is a conflict between this subchapter and other law, this subchapter controls.
V.I. Code tit. 3, § 451 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 3 - Executive|Chapter 25 - Personnel Merit System, Compensation, Expenses and Miscellaneous Benefits|Subchapter I - General Provisions|§ 451. Definitions

 As used in this chapter, unless it is otherwise provided or the context requires a different construction, application, or meaning— “appointing authority” means the Governor or any other officer or person having the authority to make appointments in the Government Service; “Board” means The Public Employees Relations Board, a separate independent board of the Government of the Virgin Islands; “class” or “class of positions” means a group of positions in the classified service sufficiently alike in duties, authority, and responsibilities that the same qualifications may be reasonably required for, and the same schedule of pay can be equitably applied to, all positions in the group; “Commission” means the Government Employees Service Commission, within the office of the Governor; “department head” means the Commissioner at the head of any executive department of the Government; “eligible” means a person whose name is on a list as defined in this section; “employment list” means a list of persons who have been found qualified by an entrance test for appointment to a position in a particular class; “entrance test” means a test for position in a particular class, admission to which is not limited to regular employees in the classified service; “Government” or “Government Service” means the Government of the United States Virgin Islands, including governmental activities administered by boards, commissions, and authorities; “list” means an employment list, a promotion list, or a reemployment list; “promotion list” means a list of persons who have been found qualified by a promotion test for appointment to a position in a particular class; “promotion test” means a test for positions in a particular class, admission to which is limited to regular employees in the classified service; “public hearing” means a hearing after public notice at which any person may have reasonable opportunity to be heard; “reemployment list” means a list of persons who have been regular employees and who are entitled to have their names certified for appointments to certain positions in the classified service; and “regular employee” means an employee who has been appointed to a position in the classified service in accordance with this chapter after completing his working test period.
V.I. Code tit. 3, § 451a (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 3 - Executive|Chapter 25 - Personnel Merit System, Compensation, Expenses and Miscellaneous Benefits|Subchapter I - General Provisions|§ 451a. Career service and exempt positions

 (a) The Government Service includes the career service and the positions exempted from the career service. (b) The exempt positions are those of— (1) department heads, Assistant Commissioners and Deputy Commissioners and members of boards, commissions or other bodies appointed by the Governor; (2) members and the staff of the Legislature, officers elected by popular vote, and persons appointed to fill vacancies in elective offices; (3) Judges of the Municipal Courts and employees of the Judicial Branch; (4) patients and inmates employed in government institutions; (5) Casual labor hired on an hourly basis for not more than 40 hours in any one quarter and as specifically authorized by law; part-time labor for less than 20 hours per week for not more than six-months; trainees for not more than one six-month period; and persons employed for less than six months in professional, scientific or other similar capacity on temporary projects, inquiries, investigations or examinations; (6) employees located outside the Virgin Islands; (7) employees of the— (i) University of the Virgin Islands; (ii) Virgin Islands Water and Power Authority; and (iii) Virgin Islands Port Authority; and (8) an officer or employee in a position of a policy-determining nature when the position is so designated by the Governor and submitted to the Legislature; and an employee who is a special assistant, or who is on special assignment to, or whose position requires a confidential relationship with a policy-making official when the position is so designated by the Governor and submitted to the Legislature. (c) All positions in the Executive Branch of the United States Virgin Islands Government not exempted under subsection (b) of this section shall be in the career service. (d) The terms “career service” and “exempt service” are intended to be synonymous with the terms “classified service” and “unclassified service”, respectively, as heretofore used in this Code.
V.I. Code tit. 3, § 451b (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 3 - Executive|Chapter 25 - Personnel Merit System, Compensation, Expenses and Miscellaneous Benefits|Subchapter I - General Provisions|§ 451b. Temporary assignment of Federal personnel

 (a) The Government of the Virgin Islands may hire federal employees pursuant to the Intergovernmental Personnel Act (IPA) Mobility Program, codified at 5 U.S.C. § 3371 through § 3376. The Government shall execute a written agreement with the federal agency and the assigned employee, recording the obligations and responsibilities of the parties to the assignment. The federal employee shall retain all federal benefits and may not participate in the Government of the Virgin Islands Employees Retirement System or health care benefits under the Virgin Islands law. (b) The Government shall bear the cost of any such temporary assignment as agreed upon under terms of the IPA agreement. (c) Salaries of the Virgin Islands Inspector General, the Deputy Virgin Islands Inspector General, and the Adjutant General of Virgin Islands as provided in title 3 Virgin Islands Code, section 1201(c) and 23 Virgin Islands Code, section 1508(a), respectively, may not be tied to the salaries of temporarily assigned federal employees under the IPA program.
V.I. Code tit. 3, § 452a (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 3 - Executive|Chapter 25 - Personnel Merit System, Compensation, Expenses and Miscellaneous Benefits|Subchapter I - General Provisions|§ 452a. Employment program for senior citizens

 The Director of Personnel is authorized and directed to develop a program for the employment of senior citizens, which program shall be subject to the approval of the Governor. The program may include part-time employment with departments, agencies, or instrumentalities of the Government of the Virgin Islands, compensation at per diem rates and in a manner which will be consonant with continued eligibility for benefits under the Social Security System of the United States, as well as under the Employees' Retirement System.
V.I. Code tit. 3, § 453 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 3 - Executive|Chapter 25 - Personnel Merit System, Compensation, Expenses and Miscellaneous Benefits|Subchapter I - General Provisions|§ 453. Force and contents of rules

 The rules adopted under section 452 of this title shall have the force and effect of law, and among things they shall provide for— (1) the method of administering the classification plan and the pay plan; (2) the establishment, maintenance, consolidation, and cancellation of lists; (3) reinstatements, transfers, suspensions, demotions, and layoffs; and (4) hours of work, attendance regulations, and leaves of absence for employees in the classified service. Such rules may include any provisions relating to governmental employment not inconsistent with law, which are necessary or appropriate to give effect to the provisions and purposes of this chapter.
V.I. Code tit. 3, § 454 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 3 - Executive|Chapter 25 - Personnel Merit System, Compensation, Expenses and Miscellaneous Benefits|Subchapter I - General Provisions|§ 454. Exercise of powers of Director of Personnel

 The powers conferred upon the Director of Personnel by sections 452 and 453 of this title shall be subject to the provisions of this chapter and of the rules referred to in such sections, and may be exercised by regulations or orders as the Director of Personnel deems appropriate. His powers and duties shall not be limited or restricted by the authorization to adopt rules except to the extent that rules are adopted under such sections.
V.I. Code tit. 3, § 455 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 3 - Executive|Chapter 25 - Personnel Merit System, Compensation, Expenses and Miscellaneous Benefits|Subchapter I - General Provisions|§ 455. Selection of personnel to act as examiners; expenses

 The Director of Personnel may select officers or employees in the Government Service to act as examiners in the preparation and rating of tests. A department head shall excuse any employee in his department from his regular duties for the time required for his work as an examiner. Officers and employees shall not be entitled to extra pay for their work as examiners but shall be entitled to reimbursement for necessary traveling and other expenses.
V.I. Code tit. 3, § 456 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 3 - Executive|Chapter 25 - Personnel Merit System, Compensation, Expenses and Miscellaneous Benefits|Subchapter I - General Provisions|§ 456. Records relating to Government Service

 Notwithstanding any rule concerning confidentiality, a government employee is entitled to inspect his or her personnel file to the extent permitted under chapter 16 of Title 24 or to the extent permitted by a collective bargaining agreement between the government and the bargaining unit of which the employee is a member.
V.I. Code tit. 3, § 457 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 3 - Executive|Chapter 25 - Personnel Merit System, Compensation, Expenses and Miscellaneous Benefits|Subchapter I - General Provisions|§ 457. Construction with other laws

 This chapter shall be subject to the provisions of section 96(a)(6) of this title, and chapter 11 of Title 17.
V.I. Code tit. 3, § 471 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 3 - Executive|Chapter 25 - Personnel Merit System, Compensation, Expenses and Miscellaneous Benefits|Subchapter II - Powers and Duties of Government Employees Service Commission|§ 471. Meetings of Commission

 The Commission shall meet at such times and places as its chairman specifies at least once every two months, or as specified by call of the Director of Personnel. Three members of the Commission shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business.
V.I. Code tit. 3, § 472 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 3 - Executive|Chapter 25 - Personnel Merit System, Compensation, Expenses and Miscellaneous Benefits|Subchapter II - Powers and Duties of Government Employees Service Commission|§ 472. Powers and duties of Commission

 In addition to the powers and duties imposed upon it elsewhere in this chapter, the Commission— (1) shall represent the public interest in the improvement of personnel administration in the Government Service; (2) shall advise the Director of Personnel and the Governor on problems concerning personnel administration; (3) shall advise and assist the Director of Personnel in fostering the interest of civil, professional and employee organizations in the improvement of personnel standards in the Government Service; (4) shall make such reports and recommendations as it considers desirable to the Director of Personnel, for submission to the Governor, regarding personnel administration in the Government Service and recommendations for improvement therein; and (5) may, when the Attorney General determines that representation of the Commission by him would constitute a conflict in representation, retain the services of private legal counsel to advise and represent the Commission in administrative hearings and before the courts of the Virgin Islands.
V.I. Code tit. 3, § 473 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 3 - Executive|Chapter 25 - Personnel Merit System, Compensation, Expenses and Miscellaneous Benefits|Subchapter II - Powers and Duties of Government Employees Service Commission|§ 473. Oaths, testimony, and production of records

 The Commission, and each member of the Commission, may administer oaths, subpoena witnesses, and compel the production of books and papers pertinent to investigations or hearings authorized by this chapter.
V.I. Code tit. 3, § 492 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 3 - Executive|Chapter 25 - Personnel Merit System, Compensation, Expenses and Miscellaneous Benefits|Subchapter III - Position Classification System|§ 492. Coverage

 (a) The position classification system established by this subchapter is applicable to all positions in the Executive Branch of the Virgin Islands Government except as provided in subsection (b) of this section. (b) The position classification system is not applicable to— (1) a position whose salary is fixed by, or determined pursuant to, an Act of Congress; (2) a position for which no compensation is paid or one paid on a daily basis when actually employed at a rate fixed by law; (3) the President and staff of the University of the Virgin Islands; (4) The staff of the Virgin Islands Urban Renewal Board; (5) the staff of the Virgin Islands Housing Authority; (6) the staff of the Virgin Islands Water and Power Authority; (7) the staff of the Virgin Islands Airport and Industrial Resources Agency through December 31, 1968; (8) the staff of the Youth and Child Health Welfare Project, Department of Health, through December 31, 1968; and (9) the staff of the Office of the Virgin Islands Inspector General.
V.I. Code tit. 3, § 493 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 3 - Executive|Chapter 25 - Personnel Merit System, Compensation, Expenses and Miscellaneous Benefits|Subchapter III - Position Classification System|§ 493. Subsystems

 (a) Within the Position Classification System, positions shall be classified in one of the three subsystems provided in subsections (b), (c), and (d) of this section. (b) There shall be a Craft and Labor Position Classification Subsystem (hereafter called the Craft and Labor System) which shall cover all positions in recognized trades or crafts, or other skilled mechanical crafts, or in unskilled, or skilled manual labor occupations, and other employees including foreman and supervisors in positions having trade, craft, or laboring experience and knowledge as the paramount requirement. The Craft and Labor System is divided into 17 grades, from 1 to 17, of increasing responsibility and difficulty. (c) There shall be an Education Position Classification Subsystem (hereafter called the Education System) which shall cover nonsupervisory, supervisory, and administrative positions in the professional education, guidance, and library services of the Department of Education, but not including top management positions. The Education System is divided into the grades and additional pay categories shown in section 494 of this chapter. (d) There shall be a General Position Classification Subsystem (hereafter called the General System) which shall cover all positions to which this subchapter is applicable which do not come under subsections (b) and (c) of this section. The General System is divided into 27 grades, from 6 to 32, of increasing responsibility and difficulty.