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(a) The qualifications of individual sureties for bail shall be as follows:\n(1) Each of them shall be a resident of the Virgin Islands.\n(2) Over and above all debts and liabilities, and exclusive of property exempt from execution, each surety shall be worth the amount specified in the writ of arrest or the amount to which the same may be reduced as provided in this chapter, except that —\n(A) the judge or clerk on justification may allow more than two sureties to justify severally for less than such amount, if the whole justification is equivalent to double such amount; and\n(B) if the court determines that one surety is sufficient, he shall be worth double such amount.\n(b) A corporate surety must be authorized and licensed to do business as a surety in the Virgin Islands.\n(c) No attorney, marshal, police officer, clerk of any court, or other officer of any court shall be permitted to become bail in any action.