2019 US Virgin Islands Code
Title 3 - Executive
Chapter 1 - Governor
§ 4. Office of Management and Budget

Universal Citation: V.I. Code tit. 3, § 4 (2019)
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  • (a) There is established in the Office of the Governor the Office of Management and Budget. There shall be in the Office of Management and Budget a Director and a Deputy Director. The Director shall be appointed by the Governor with the advice and consent of the Legislature and shall administer the Office of Management and Budget. The Deputy Director shall perform such duties as the Director may designate and during a vacancy in the Office of the Director he shall act as Director. Pursuant to such rules and regulations as the Governor may prescribe, the Office shall prepare the Executive Budget Proposal and any proposed supplemental or deficiency appropriations and to this end shall have authority to assemble, correlate, revise, reduce or increase the requests for appropriations of the departments, agencies and commissions.

  • (b) The Director, under such rules and regulations as the Governor may prescribe, shall appoint attorneys and other employees and shall make expenditures for printing, binding, telephone service, law books, books of reference, periodicals, stationery, furniture, office equipment, other supplies, and necessary expenses of the Office, within the appropriations made therefor.

  • (c) The Office of Management and Budget, when directed by the Governor, shall make a detailed study of the departments, agencies and commissions of the Government of the United States Virgin Islands for the purposes of enabling the Governor to determine what changes (with a view of securing greater economy and efficiency in the conduct of the public service) should be made in

    • (1) the existing organization, activities, and methods of business of such departments, agencies and commissions,

    • (2) the appropriations therefor,

    • (3) the assignment of particular activities to particular services, or

    • (4) the regrouping of services.

      The results of such study shall be embodied in a report to the Governor, who shall transmit to the Legislature such report or any part thereof with his recommendations on the matters covered.

  • (d) The Governor, through the Director of the Office of Management and Budget, is authorized and directed to evaluate and develop improved plans for the organization, coordination and management of the executive branch of the Government with a view to efficient and economical service.

  • (e) The Governor, through the Director of the Office of Management and Budget, is authorized and directed to develop programs and to issue regulations and orders for the improved gathering, compiling, analyzing, publishing and disseminating of statistical information for any purpose by the various agencies in the executive branch of the Government. Such regulations and orders shall be adhered to by such agencies.

  • (f) The head of each executive department, agency and commission shall, in consultation with the Director of the Office of Management and Budget, take whatever action may be necessary to achieve, insofar as is possible,

    • (1) consistency in accounting and budget classifications and organizational structure, and

    • (2) support of the budget justifications by information such as performance and program costs by organizational units.

  • (g) The Office of Management and Budget shall, at the request of the Legislature's Committee on Finance, furnish the Committee such aid and information as it may request.

  • (h) Under such regulations as the Governor may prescribe:

    • (1) Every department, agency and commission shall furnish to the Office of Management and Budget such information as the Office may from time to time require, and

    • (2) The Director and the Deputy Director, or any employee of the Office when duly authorized, shall, for the purpose of securing such information, have access to, and the right to examine, any books, documents, papers or records of any such department, agency or commission.

  • (i) The head of each department, agency and commission shall prepare or cause to be prepared in each fiscal year his requests for regular, supplemental or deficiency appropriations.

  • (j) The head of each department, agency and commission shall submit his requests for appropriations to the Office of Management and Budget on or before a date which the Governor shall determine. In case of his failure to do so, the Governor shall cause such requests to be prepared as are necessary to enable him to include such requests with the Executive Budget Proposal with respect to the work of such department, agency, and commission.

  • (k)

    • (1) Requests for regular, supplemental or deficiency appropriations which are submitted to the Office of Management and Budget by the head of any department, agency or commission shall be prepared and submitted as the Governor may determine in accordance with the provisions of section 9(c) of the Revised Organic Act of 1954.

    • (2) The requests of the departments, agencies and commissions for appropriations shall, in such manner and at such times as may be determined by the Governor, be delivered from cost-based budgets.

    • (3) For purposes of administration and operation, such cost-based budgets shall be used by all departments, agencies and commissions and their subordinate units. Administrative subdivisions of appropriations or funds shall be made on the basis of such cost-based budgets.

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