Rights of persons; prohibition against discrimination

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  • (a) All natural persons within the jurisdiction of the United States Virgin Islands, without regard to race, creed, color, or national origin, and subject only to the conditions and limitations established by law and applicable in like manner to all persons, are entitled to—

    • (1) equal treatment with respect to employment, pay and working conditions in any and all businesses and industry, and with respect to union membership.

    • (2) the full and equal accommodations, advantages, facilities, and privileges of any place of public accommodation, resort, or amusement.

    • (3) the full and equal privilege to purchase or rent any item of real estate, goods, commodities, service or any other thing offered for charge to others.

  • (b) No person, being the owner, proprietor, superintendent, manager, agent, or employee of any publicly licensed business or any other business or industrial establishment, shall directly, indirectly or by subterfuge, deny employment in or at such business to any applicant therefor, or engage in or permit any discrimination or differential in pay or working conditions for workers doing the same work, on account of race, creed, color, or national origin, subject only to the conditions and limitations established by law and applicable in like manner to all persons.

  • (c) No person being an officer, agent, or employee of a labor organization shall directly, indirectly or by subterfuge deny membership in such organization to any applicant therefor, on account of race, creed, or color, or national origin, subject only to the conditions and limitations established by law and applicable in like manner to all persons.

  • (d) No person, being the owner, proprietor, lessee, superintendent, agent, or employee of any place of public accommodation, resort or amusement, shall directly or indirectly or by subterfuge—

    • (1) withhold from or deny to any other person any of the accommodations, advantages, facilities, or privileges thereof; or

    • (2) adopt or pursue any custom, policy, practice, requirement or secret understanding, or any custom or policy of nonmembership discrimination or guest-card requirement with respect to the operation or management of such place which is intended, calculated or designed to, or which shall have the effect of discriminating against any other persons on account of race, creed, color, or national origin, or by reason of nonmembership in a club.

  • (e) No person, being an officer, owner, proprietor, manager, superintendent, lessee, agent or employee of any business or club, engaged in selling, leasing or renting any plots of land, building sites, lots, estates, houses, apartments, or any other item of real estate shall, directly or indirectly or by subterfuge, deny to any other person the right to purchase, lease or rent any such item of real estate, on account of race, creed, color, or national origin, subject only to the conditions and limitations established by law, and applicable in like manner to all persons.

  • (f) Any restrictive covenant or condition or other provision in a deed, contract or writing of whatsoever nature relating to the conveyance, sale, lease or rental, of real estate, or any interest therein, which in any manner prohibits or restricts the reconveyance or resale, ownership, use or enjoyment of such real estate or interest therein on account of race, creed, color, or national origin, is contrary to public policy and hereby declared null and void and of no effect whatsoever. Likewise any covenant, condition, or provision in such deed, contract or writing requiring resale back to the seller or to some other particular person, corporation or group or any other special option on the part of the seller, except in family relationship, deeds of conveyance under the auspices of programs of the Virgin Islands Housing Finance Authority and government homestead deeds, is hereby declared to be subterfuge and also void and of no force whatsoever.

  • (g) The use of any roadway or street into, within or through any subdivision of residential development of ten or more dwellings, which roadway or street is open to the use of any other persons as guests, visitors or permittees, other than the actual inhabitants thereof, shall not be denied or restricted directly, indirectly or by subterfuge, to any person on account of race, creed, color, or national origin, subject only to the conditions and limitations established by law and applicable in like manner to all persons.


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