Process

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  • (a) The process of the Superior Court runs throughout the territory.

  • (b) Service of all process shall be made in any part of the territory by the Virgin Islands marshal and probation officer of the Superior Court and such other persons as may be authorized by law to serve such process, or such other officers or persons as may be designated by the court. The persons so designated shall receive in payment for their services not less than the statutory fees allowed therefor.

  • (c) Summonses, complaints and subpoenas shall be served in the same manner as summonses are required to be served by Rule 4 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure.

  • (d) Where the law, or the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, does not specifically require process to be served by an officer of the court, process may be directed to and served by a disinterested person named therein. The person so authorized shall be sworn to the truth of the return. A certificate of the oath shall be endorsed upon the writ or process by the authority administering the same. When the service of a summons, complaint or subpoena is made for any party by a person specially authorized to do so, fees for such service shall not be recoverable from or taxed against the opposite party in excess of the taxable fees of the Virgin Islands marshal and probation officer of the Superior Court, had such process been served by a marshal.


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