2019 US Virgin Islands Code
Title 28 - Property
Chapter 19 - Condemnation of Property; Eminent Domain
§ 411. Public uses

(1) All public uses authorized by Congress or the Legislature of the Virgin Islands.

(2) Public buildings and grounds for the use of the Government of the United States Virgin Islands.

(3) Public buildings and grounds for the use of any town, village, school district, or other governmental division, whether incorporated or unincorporated; canals, aqueducts, flumes, ditches, or pipes conducting water, heat, or gas for the use of the inhabitants of any town, or other governmental division, whether incorporated or unincorporated, roads, streets, and alleys, and all other public uses for the benefit of any town, or other governmental division, whether incorporated or unincorporated, or the inhabitants thereof, which may be authorized by Congress or the Legislature of the Virgin Islands.

(4) Wharves, docks, piers, bridges of all kinds, railroads, canals, ditches, flumes, aqueducts, and pipes for public transportation, supplying agricultural lands with water, and sites for reservoirs necessary for collecting and storing water.

(5) Telephone, electric light, power, or telegraph lines.

(6) Sewerage of any town, village, or other governmental division, whether incorporated or unincorporated, or any subdivision thereof, or of any public buildings belonging to the Government of the United States Virgin Islands.

(7) Tramway lines.

(8) For the acquisition of natural water sources, water courses and watershed areas for providing public water supply; for the construction of impounding dams and basins to retain water for irrigation purposes and for canals, flumes, aqueducts, etc., to distribute water for irrigation; Provided, however, That in any condemnation proceeding on behalf of an irrigation system it must be shown that the proposed system is general in its nature and designated to serve the available contiguous agricultural lands.

(9) For the acquisition of parks, lands for public recreation and significant natural areas as defined in Title 12, chapter 21 of this Code.