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Whereas this title is enacted under the police power of the Territory of the United States Virgin Islands, for the protection of the public welfare, order, health, safety, and peace of all of the people therein; and
Whereas the Legislature finds and hereby declares that practices of racial discrimination against any of the inhabitants of the United States Virgin Islands because of race, creed, color, or national origin not only threatens the rights and proper privileges of its inhabitants but menaces and threatens the foundations of a free and democratic territory and menaces and threatens the peace, order, health, safety, and general welfare of its inhabitants; and
Whereas it is the cultural and democratic heritage of the people of the United States Virgin Islands to respect the human and civil rights of all people and to judge all persons according to their individual merit without reference to race, creed, color, or national origin; and to cherish the racial equality, harmony, and good will that exists in the United States Virgin Islands; and
Whereas racial discrimination, segregation, and other forms of bias and bigotry are not part of the way of life of the people of the United States Virgin Islands:
Now, therefore, it is declared to be the public policy of the United States Virgin Islands that all natural persons within its jurisdiction shall be entitled to the full and equal accommodations, advantages, facilities, and privileges of any place of public accommodations, resort, or amusement, and to the equal opportunity and treatment in employment in any and all businesses and industrial establishments, and to membership in all labor organizations, and to equal privileges in the purchase, lease, or rental of real estate, and in the purchase of any commodity or service offered for sale; subject only to conditions or limitations imposed by law and applicable in like manner to all persons.
In order to implement this public policy, it is the intent of this chapter to prevent and prohibit discrimination in any form based upon race, creed, color, or national origin, whether practiced directly or indirectly, or by subterfuge in any and all places of public accommodations, resort, or amusement, and in all sales of real estate, goods, articles, accommodations, commodities, or services, and in the employment of persons, or their working conditions, or obtaining union membership, and to prohibit clubs from establishing a private clientele of either members or guests, which they have selected, and with which persons alone will they transact their business and commerce.