(a) Except as provided in subsection (e) and the federal Hazardous Materials Transportation Act and Regulations and commercial driver's license program, or compatible regulations of the Territory as adopted from time to time, this chapter is the sole and exclusive commercial motor vehicle safety regulations of this Territory.
(b) The Director of Bureau of Motor Vehicles may, by rulemaking conducted in accordance with title 3 V.I.C., chapter 35, promulgate rules and regulations consistent with the Out-of-Service Criteria. In no case may the Director of the Bureau of Motor Vehicles or the Department or the Bureau of Motor Vehicles adopt or enforce or the Police Commissioner enforce out-of-service criteria that differ from those contained in the current Out-of-Service Criteria or impose fines that exceed the schedule of maximum fines established in subsections (393)(a), (393)(b) and (393)(c) of this chapter.
(c) The courts of this Territory may impose, in addition to the maximum fines set forth in section 393, subsections (a), (b) and (c) of this chapter, charges for court costs. The charges may not exceed those imposed for non-commercial vehicle or driver violations, nor may such costs vary because of the state of licensure of the vehicle or driver.
(d) The courts of this Territory may not impose surcharges of any type on the fines for violations of the Commercial Motor Vehicle Inspection and Commercial Driver's License Act or the federal Hazardous Materials Transportation Act and Regulations or compatible regulations of the Territory as adopted from time to time unless the surcharges are regularly imposed, in the same amounts, on non-commercial vehicles or driver violations, nor may such costs vary because of the state of licensure of the vehicle or drivers.
(e) The Department or the Bureau of Motor Vehicles may not issue more than one citation for multiple violations of each item of each group of the criteria set forth in section 394, subsections (a), (b), (c) and (d) of this chapter.
(f) The Director of the Bureau of Motor Vehicles may, by rulemaking conducted in accordance with 3 V.I.C., chapter 35, and the Federal REAL ID Act of 2005, promulgate regulations to implement the Commercial Driver's License Program. These rules may be done through BMV Directives or other supplemental standard operating procedures as required, or both.
(g) The Bureau of Motor Vehicles is the sole entity of the Virgin Islands Government empowered to create territorial driver's licenses for commercial, vehicles-for-hire, non-commercial driver's licenses and identification cards.