Virgin Islands Annotated Code :: 16 V.I.C. § 41. Records to be maintained by Superior Court
§ 41. Records to be maintained by Superior Court:
(a) Each Superior Court shall provide a record book consisting of applications and licenses in blank, to be filled up with information on the parties for whose marriages any licenses are issued. The applications and licenses shall be numbered consecutively from “1” upwards.
(b) The Superior Court shall also keep a record book in which shall be recorded, in the order of their numbers, the certificates of the ministers or other persons authorized, upon their returns to the court, corresponding to the record book of licenses issued.
(c) A copy of any license and certificate of marriage so kept and recorded, certified by the judge or the clerk of the Superior Court under his hand and the seal of the court, shall be competent evidence of the marriage.
—Amended May 29, 1959, No. 417, § 1, Sess. L. 1959, p. 23; Sept. 9, 1976, No. 3876, § 5, Sess. L. 1976, p. 197. ; Statutes current through Act 8439, all 2020 legislation and code changes through March 1, 2021
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