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As used in this chapter, the following words, unless the context clearly requires otherwise, have the following meanings:\n(1) 'Commissioner' means the Commissioner of the Virgin Islands Department of Human Services.\n(2) 'Department' means the Virgin Islands Department of Human Services.\n(3) 'EMS first responder' means a person providing emergency medical services.\n(4) 'First responder' means police officer, fire firefighter, or a volunteer fire fighter trained to administer first aid; but the term does not include a police officer, fire fighter, or person engaged in police or fire work whose duties are primarily clerical or administrative.\n(5) 'Private safety organization' means an entity that provides emergency police, fire, ambulance or medical services, which is not a government agency.\n(6) 'Public safety department' means a functional division of a department or agency of the Government of the Virgin Islands, which provides firefighting, law enforcement, and ambulance, medical or other emergency services.\n(7) 'Silver Alert System' means the Silver Alert Community Response System established in section 502.\n(8) 'VITEMA' means the Virgin Islands Territorial Emergency

dical or other emergency services.\n(7) 'Silver Alert System' means the Silver Alert Community Response System established in section 502.\n(8) 'VITEMA' means the Virgin Islands Territorial Emergency Management Agency established under 23 V.I.C. § 1006.\n(9) 'Director' means Virgin Islands Territorial Emergency Management Agency.