(a) Each person within this Territory shall conduct himself and keep and manage his affairs and property in ways that will reasonably assist and will not unreasonably detract from the ability of the Territory and the public successfully to meet emergencies or major disasters. This obligation includes appropriate personal service and use or restriction on the use of property in time of emergency or major disaster. This chapter neither increases nor decreases these obligations but recognizes their existence under the United States Constitution, the Revised Organic Act, and statutes and common law of this Territory. Compensation for services or for the taking or use of property shall be made consistent with the United States Constitution, the Revised Organic Act, and statutes and common law of this Territory.
(b) No personal services may be compensated by the Territory or any subdivision or agency thereof, except pursuant to law.
(c) Compensation for property shall be paid only if the property was commandeered or otherwise used in coping with an emergency or major disaster and its use or destruction was ordered by the Governor or a member of the emergency or major disaster forces of this Territory.
(d) Any person claiming compensation for the use, damage, loss, or destruction of property under this chapter shall file a claim therefore with the appropriate territorial agency in the form and manner the agency provides.
(e) Unless the amount of compensation on account of property damaged, lost, or destroyed is agreed between the claimant and the agency, the amount of compensation shall be calculated in the same manner as compensation due for a taking of property pursuant to the condemnation laws of this Territory following insofar as possible the procedures set forth in Chapter 19 of title 28 of this Code.
(f) Nothing in this section applies to or authorizes compensation for the destruction or damaging of standing timber or other property in order to provide a fire break, or to the release of water or the breach of impoundments in order to reduce pressure or other danger from actual or threatened flood.