Definitions

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  • As used in this chapter:
    • (1) “Agency” means any department, agency, or instrumentality of the Government of the Virgin Islands, displacing agency or entity, any person or private entity, whether or not it has the authority to acquire property by eminent domain, and which in carrying out a program or project with Federal financial assistance causes a person(s) to be displaced;

    • (2) “Person” means any individual, partnership, corporation, or association;

    • (3) “Displacing agency” means any department, agency, instrumentality of the Government of the Virgin Islands, any person or private entity, whether or not it has the authority to acquire property by eminent domain, and which in carrying out a program or project with Federal financial assistance, causes person(s) to be displaced.

    • (4) “Displaced person” means any person who, on or after August 11, 1972, moves from real property, or moves his personal property from real property, as a result of the acquisition of such real property, in whole or in part, or as the result of the written order of the acquiring agency to vacate real property, for a program or project undertaken by an agency; and solely for the purposes of sections 292 and 294 of this chapter, as a result of the acquisition of or as a result of the written order of the acquiring agency to vacate other real property, on which such person conducts a business or farm operation, for such program or project;

    • (5) “Nonprofit organization” means any organization which could qualify for a certificate of tax exemption under Section 501(c)(3) of the United States Internal Revenue Code;

    • (6) “Business” means any lawful activity required to be licensed as a business by the laws of the Virgin Islands, excepting a farm operation;

    • (7) “Farm operation” means any activity conducted solely or primarily for the production of one or more agricultural products or commodities, including timber, for sale or home use, and customarily producing such products or commodities in sufficient quantity to be capable of contributing materially to the operator's support.


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