Penalties for violations

1. Law
2. US Virgin Islands Code
3. Civil Rights
4. Equal Rights of All Persons Against Discrimination
5. Penalties for violations

• Whoever, whether as owner, officer, manager, agent, or employee of any business or industrial establishment, labor organization, place of public accommodation, resort or amusement, or club, violates any of the provisions of this chapter, shall, for each and every such violation, be —

  • (1) liable in actual damages, and in addition, thereto, to punitive damages not to exceed $5,000 to be recovered in a civil action by the person aggrieved thereby or by any resident of the United States Virgin Islands to whom the person aggrieved may assign his cause of action; and

  • (2) fined not more than $2,000 or imprisoned not more than one year, or both.

• The owner or owners of any business where an offense mentioned herein has been committed by his or its officer, manager, agent, or employee, such owner or owners shall be severally and/or jointly liable with the offender for the actual and punitive damages provided for herein.

• Each day of violation shall constitute a separate offense.

• Neither penalty nor action listed above, in subdivisions (1) and (2) of this section, shall be a bar to the other, and recovery or action in one shall not preclude action or recovery in the other or in any other lawful remedy otherwise possessed by an aggrieved person.

• Any person who conspires with another person to violate any of the provisions of this chapter shall be liable as a principal violator and subject to all of the penalties above.

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