Crime Prevention/Prosecution Fund

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  • (a) There is hereby established in the Treasury of the Virgin Islands a special fund designated and known as the Crime Prevention/Prosecution Fund. The Commissioner of Finance shall maintain and provide for the administration of the Crime Prevention/Prosecution Fund as a separate and distinct fund in the Treasury and no monies shall be available for expenditure therefrom except as provided in this section.

  • (b) The Crime Prevention/Prosecution Fund shall be constituted of:

    • (1) all sums appropriated thereto from time to time by the Legislature;

    • (2) all fines imposed by the courts for violations of Title 14, Virgin Islands Code;

    • (3) sums collected by reason of forfeited bail as ordered by the courts under Title 5, Virgin Islands Code, sections 3505 and 3818;

    • (4) proceeds from public sale of confiscated property;

    • (5) proceeds from public sales of property donated for the purposes of this fund; and

    • (6) such grants, contributions, gifts and bequests, federal or local, as may be made thereto and which the Commissioner of Finance is hereby authorized to accept and deposit therein.

  • (c) Monies shall be disbursed from the Crime Prevention/Prosecution Fund by the Commissioner of Finance, upon authorization and direction of the Attorney General, for the purchase of, and contracts for, personal services, equipment and supplies for discharging the Department of Justice's responsibility for criminal law enforcement and prosecution; and for the extradition of fugitives to and from other jurisdictions.

  • (d) The Commissioner of Finance shall maintain a record of all monies deposited into and disbursed from the Crime Prevention/Prosecution Fund and shall submit quarterly reports to the Governor and the Legislature on the status of said Fund.


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