Throwing bodily fluid or waste at a person

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  • (a) Any person who is housed in any correctional facility in the Virgin Islands or who is being detained, arrested, transported or supervised by a correctional officer, police officer, marshal, or any other peace officer whether such person is a sentenced prisoner, a pretrial detainee or an arrestee, who knowingly throws any bodily fluids or bodily waste at a correctional officer, staff member, private contractor or employee of any correctional facility or court of the Virgin Islands, police officer or authorized visitor to a correctional facility or court, or

  • (b) Any person who knowingly throws any bodily fluids or bodily waste at any other person when the person throwing the waste knows he has a communicable disease shall be guilty of a felony punishable by imprisonment for not more than five (5) years and subject to a fine of up to $5,000.

  • (c) Any person who knowingly and maliciously throws any bodily fluids or bodily waste at any other person shall be guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by imprisonment for not more than six (6) months and subject to a fine of up to $1,000.


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