Venereal diseases are held to be infectious, communicable and dangerous to the public health and welfare. The control of venereal diseases in the Virgin Islands shall be vested in the Commissioner of Health. The Commissioner shall exercise every effort to cure and prevent the spread of such diseases. Syphilis, gonorrhea, chancroid, granuloma inguinale and lymphopathia venereum are declared venereal diseases.
U.S. Virgin Islands Legal Code
31
U.S. Virgin Islands § 31 — U.S. Virgin Islands law