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§ 1232. Records of registrants

Persons registered to manufacture, distribute, or dispense controlled dangerous substances under this chapter shall keep records and maintain inventories in conformance with the record-keeping and inventory requirements of federal law and with the additional regulations the Director issues

§ 1233. Deputy Director; manner of selection; base salary

(a) The Board of Directors of the Bureau may, upon recommendation of the Director, hire a Deputy Director who shall serve until removed for just cause as so determined by the Board. (b) The base salary for the Deputy Director must be between 85%-92% of the base salary for the Director.

§ 1234. Employees—agents and support staff

(a) All former non-agent employees of the Virgin Islands Drug Enforcement Bureau who were transferred or assigned to other territorial law enforcement and government agencies and who currently are working in other territorial law enforcement and government agencies must, unless they otherwise express a contrary intent pursuant to section 1235 of this chapter, be reinstated […]

§ 1235. Employee notification; declaration of intent

The Government shall have 15 days after enactment of this chapter to notify in writing all employees that were transferred or assigned out of the Virgin Islands Drug Enforcement Bureau as to the reinstatement provisions of section 1234 and as to the employees’ right to declare their intent to return to the agency or remain […]

§ 1224. Investigations; subpoena power

(a) In any investigation relating to the Director’s functions under this section with respect to controlled substances, the Director may subpoena witnesses, compel the attendance and testimony of witnesses, and require the production of any records, including books, papers, documents, and other tangible things which constitute or contain evidence, that the Director finds relevant or […]

§ 1225. Budget of Bureau

(a) The Bureau is comprised of one Director and such Agents, secretarial, investigative and clerical personnel as are necessary or desirable as determined by the Director within the scope of legislative appropriations made therefor. All other money, gifts, properly, [sic] proceeds from rent, sales, and all other gifts and contributions, including but not limited to […]

§ 1226. Report

The Director shall make an annual report to all members of the Board. The report must contain, at a minimum, a brief scary of all cases handled by the Bureau the preceding year, as well as the activities in which the Bureau participated.

§ 1227. Registration with the Virgin Islands Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs Control for lawful possession of dangerous drugs and/or narcotics

(a) Every person who manufactures, distributes, dispenses, prescribes, administers or uses for scientific purposes, including the police sciences any controlled dangerous substance within this territory, or who proposes to engage in the manufacture, distribution, dispensing, prescribing, administering or use for scientific purposes, including the police sciences of any controlled dangerous substance within this territory shall […]

§ 1228. Registration requirements for lawful possession

(a) The Director of the Virgin Islands Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs Control shall register an applicant to manufacture, distribute, dispense, prescribe, administer or use for scientific purposes controlled dangerous substances included in Schedules I through V of 19 V.I.C., 595 unless the Director determines that the issuance of such registration is inconsistent with […]

§ 1229. Denial, revocation or suspension of registration

(a) A registration, pursuant to section 1227 of this chapter, to manufacture, distribute, dispense, prescribe, administer or use for scientific purposes a controlled dangerous substance must be limited, conditioned, denied, suspended or revoked by the Director upon a finding that the registrant: (1) Has materially falsified any application filed pursuant to this chapter or required […]