§ 1257. Penalties
Any person who violates a reporting provision of this chapter or regulations or orders pertaining to the reporting of information to the Registry is subject to a civil fine of not less than $1,000 per case but not more than $5,000 per case. Before assessing the fine, the Commissioner of Health, or the Commissioner’s designee, […]
§ 1251. Definitions
In this chapter: (1) “Cancer” means all malignant neoplasms, regardless of the tissue of origin, including malignant lymphoma, Hodgkin’s disease, and leukemia. (2) “Health care facility” means hospitals; health care clinics; health centers; skilled nursing facilities; mental health facilities; kidney disease treatment centers, including freestanding hemodialysis units; intermediate care facilities; ambulatory surgical facilities; rehabilitation facilities; […]
§ 1252. Establishment of the Cancer Registry
(a) There is established within the Department of Health under the division of and supervision of the Virgin Islands Chronic Disease Prevention Program, the Virgin Islands Central Cancer Registry. The Registry serves as the territorial surveillance system and repository of cancer data that includes data regarding incidence, mortality, stage of the disease, risk factors and […]
§ 1253. Participation in program
(a) Each healthcare provider and health care facility shall report in an electronic format or any other format requested by the Registry each new case of a reportable neoplasm to the Registry not later than 180 days after the date of diagnosis or date of first contact with the already diagnosed patient. (b) Private or […]
§ 1254. Confidentiality
(a) All cancer case data provided to the Registry must be kept confidential. No information reported to the Registry which identifies or could lead to the identification of an individual cancer patient may be disclosed to any person or entity; except that the identifying information may be disclosed to another state cancer registry and territorial […]
§ 1255. Disclosure
(a) Cancer case data may be shared with cancer researchers or federal cancer control agencies for the purposes of cancer prevention, control, and research upon the submittal of documentation to the Registry providing that research in cancer prevention or control is ongoing or approval for such research has been granted. If applicable, the Registry shall […]
§ 1177. Expense of transportation
(a) The expense of conveying all public patients to a mental hospital shall be borne by the government of the Virgin Islands and shall be paid upon sworn account of the officer or person performing such service, showing in detail the actual expense incurred in the transportation. (b) In case any public patient is possessed […]
§ 1201. Discharge of patients
(a) Except as provided in subsection (c) of this section, any patient may be discharged from the mental hospital at any time upon a unanimous decision of the Sanity Board. (b) Except as provided in subsection (c) of this section, a recovered patient may be discharged by the proper authorities of the mental hospital, whether […]
§ 1202. Procedure regarding mentally ill prisoners
When a prisoner eligible for discharge from the penitentiary or during his term of incarceration is alleged by the Commissioner of Public Safety to be mentally ill, and it shall be adjudged in accordance with the provisions of this chapter by the district court that such prisoner is mentally ill, he shall be conveyed to […]
§ 1203. Return of escaped patients
If any person confined in the mental hospital shall escape therefrom the marshal or a peace officer shall apprehend and return him to the mental hospital.