As used in this Code or in any Act of the Legislature, unless it is otherwise provided or the context requires a different construction, application, or meaning— words importing the singular include and apply to several persons, parties, or things; words importing the plural include the singular; words importing the masculine gender include the feminine; […]
Words and phrases shall be read with their context and shall be construed according to the common and approved usage of the English language. Technical words and phrases, and such others as may have acquired a peculiar and appropriate meaning in the law, shall be construed and understood according to their peculiar and appropriate meaning.
Words giving a joint authority to three or more public officers, or other persons, shall be construed as giving the authority to a majority of them, unless it be otherwise expressed in the provisions of law giving the authority.
The classification and organization of the titles, parts, chapters, subchapters, and sections of this Code, and the headings thereto, are made for the purpose of convenient reference and orderly arrangement, and no implication, inference, or presumption of a legislative construction shall be drawn therefrom.
(a) The following matter does not constitute part of the law — (1) the various analyses set out in this Code, constituting enumerations or lists of the titles, parts, chapters, subchapters and sections of this Code; (2) the descriptive headings or catchlines, other than the section numbers contained therein, immediately preceding the texts of the […]
(a) Any Act that amends another Act or provision of this Code which previously had been amended by any other Act, shall be construed as amending, also, the amendatory provisions of the other Act, though it make no reference thereto. (b) Any Act that amends the provisions of any other Act, which constituted, themselves, an […]
The repeal of any Act or part thereof, or provision of this Code, includes all amendments to that Act, part, or provision, though the repealing Act makes no reference to the amendments.
The repeal of any provision of an Act, which amends a provision of a prior Act or of this Code, leaves the prior provision in force unless the amendatory provision is a substantial reenactment of the prior provision.
The repeal of the provision of any Act, which repeals a prior Act, or part of a prior Act, or provision of this Code, does not revive the prior Act, part, or provision, unless it is expressly so provided.
(a) The repeal of any Act, part of any Act, or provision of this Code does not release or extinguish any right acquired, or penalty, forfeiture, or liability incurred, under the Act, part, or provision, and existing at the time of the repeal, unless the repealing Act expressly so provides, and the Act, part, or […]
Except as otherwise specifically provided, if any provision of this Code, of any amendment hereto, or of any Act or statute of the Virgin Islands, or the application of any such provision to any person, thing, or circumstance, is determined by any court of competent jurisdiction to be invalid, such determination of invalidity shall not […]
Unless otherwise specifically provided therein, the effective date of bills enacted by the Legislature shall be the date of approval of same by the Governor, or the date such bill becomes law without his approval as provided in section 9, subsection (d) of the Revised Organic Act of 1954.
