2019 US Virgin Islands Code
Title 14 - Crimes
Chapter 35 - Extortion, Oppression, and Threats
§ 703. Oppression
Universal Citation: V.I. Code tit. 14, § 703 (2019)
- Whoever, being a public officer, or person pretending to be a public officer, and under the pretense or color of any process or other legal authority—
(1) arrests any person or detains him against his will;
(2) seizes or levies upon any property;
(3) dispossesses any one of any lands or property; or
(4) does any other act, whereby another person is injured in his person, property or rights—
without a regular process or other lawful authority therefor, commits oppression and shall be fined not more than $200 or imprisoned not more than 1 year, or both.
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