Definitions

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  • As used in this chapter, the following words, unless the context clearly requires otherwise, have the following meanings:
    • (1) “Commissioner” means the Commissioner of the Virgin Islands Department of Human Services.

    • (2) “Department” means the Virgin Islands Department of Human Services.

    • (3) “EMS first responder” means a person providing emergency medical services.

    • (4) “First responder” means police officer, fire firefighter, or a volunteer fire fighter trained to administer first aid; but the term does not include a police officer, fire fighter, or person engaged in police or fire work whose duties are primarily clerical or administrative.

    • (5) “Private safety organization” means an entity that provides emergency police, fire, ambulance or medical services, which is not a government agency.

    • (6) “Public safety department” means a functional division of a department or agency of the Government of the Virgin Islands, which provides firefighting, law enforcement, and ambulance, medical or other emergency services.

    • (7) “Silver Alert System” means the Silver Alert Community Response System established in section 502.

    • (8) “VITEMA” means the Virgin Islands Territorial Emergency Management Agency established under 23 V.I.C. § 1006.

    • (9) “Director” means Virgin Islands Territorial Emergency Management Agency.


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