§ 1704. Penalty
Any person who makes any false statement in procuring any permit required by this chapter, or who removes any dead body from this Territory for the purpose of cremation upon an ordinary removal permit, or who violates any provision of this chapter, upon conviction shall be fined not more than five thousand dollars, or imprisoned […]
§ 2001. Management of cemeteries
The Commissioner of Public Works shall have jurisdiction over all public cemeteries. He shall appoint personnel of the Department of Public Works to supervise, manage and maintain all such cemeteries. The Commissioner shall cause to be installed in all public cemeteries an electrical lighting system. Telephones shall be installed in all public cemeteries for the […]
§ 2002. Regulation of public cemeteries
The Commissioner of Public Works shall by regulations approved by the Governor, not inconsistent with any laws, provide for the establishment, maintenance, and improvement of public cemeteries in the Virgin Islands, and for the procedure governing their operation. Such regulations shall govern the— (1) laying out of grave plots, and the digging and making up […]
§ 1602. Blood banks
(A) A health care facility which performs a transfusion shall be required to accept autologous or designated blood for a potential transfusion to a patient, if the blood is received from a blood bank licensed by the Virgin Islands Department of Health, and has been tested and prepared in accordance with standards approved by the […]
§ 1603. Powers and duties of the Commissioner of Health
The Commissioner of Health shall have general oversight and shall establish rules and regulations for the implementation and carrying out of the provisions of this chapter.
§ 1604. Virgin Islands Employee Blood Donor Act
(a) The Commissioner of Health shall promulgate regulations to implement an Employee Blood Donation Program that provides for participants to receive time off from their employment to donate blood, as provided in subsection (d). (b) Only fulltime employees who are employed by the employers identified in subsection (d), are at least 18 years of age, […]
§ 1700. Erection, maintenance and operation of crematories; fees
(a) Any funeral home licensed to do business in the Virgin Islands, or individual or corporation formed under the laws of this territory with at least three (3) years training in mortuary science or five (5) years of operating experience, may erect, maintain and operate a crematory in the territory and provide the necessary appliances […]
§ 1701. Public crematory
The Department of Health may erect, maintain and operate a crematory for the cremation after dead bodies which have been held in its morgue for at least one year, and have not been identified or claimed. The crematory shall be erected, maintained and operated in accordance with the provisions of this chapter, and shall be […]
§ 1570e. Penalties
Any person who violates any of the provisions of the rules and regulations issued by the Waste Management Authority pursuant to the provisions of subsection (g) of section 1568 of this chapter shall be fined $100.00.
§ 1570f. Disposal of collected waste
(a) Effective on the date the owner of a Solid Waste Disposal Resource Recovery and Desalination Facility constructed pursuant to this chapter is contractually obligated to commence operation, in either the District of St. Thomas-St. John or the District of St. Croix, all solid waste in that district, however collected, that the Facility is required […]