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48 U.S.C. § 1597 — Reorganization of government
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**(a) Consolidation of departments, bureaus, etc.; popular election of school board members** The Governor shall, within one year after July 22, 1954, reorganize and consolidate the existing executive departments, bureaus, independent boards, agencies, authorities, commissions, and other instrumentalities of the government of the Virgin Islands or of the municipal governments into not more than nine executive departments except for independent bodies whose existence may be required by Federal law for participation in Federal programs. The head of each executive department other than the department of law shall be designated as the commissioner thereof, and the commissioner of finance shall be bonded. The head of the department of law shall be known as the attorney general of the Virgin Islands. Members of school boards, which entities of government have been duly organized and established by the government of the Virgin Islands, shall be popularly elected.
**(b) Changes after examination from time to time** The Governor shall, from time to time, after complying with the provisions of subsection (a) of this section, examine the organization of the executive branch of the government of the Virgin Islands, and shall make such changes therein, subject to the approval of the legislature, not inconsistent with this chapter, as he determines are necessary to promote effective management and to execute faithfully the purposes of this chapter and the laws of the Virgin Islands.
**(c) Appointment of department heads; tenure; removal; powers and duties; appointments to boards, etc.** The heads of the executive departments created by this chapter shall be appointed by the Governor, with the advice and consent of the legislature. Each shall hold office during the continuance in of
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**(a) Consolidation of departments, bureaus, etc.; popular election of school board members** The Governor shall, within one year after July 22, 1954, reorganize and consolidate the existing executive departments, bureaus, independent boards, agencies, authorities, commissions, and other instrumentalities of the government of the Virgin Islands or of the municipal governments into not more than nine executive departments except for independent bodies whose existence may be required by Federal law for participation in Federal programs. The head of each executive department other than the department of law shall be designated as the commissioner thereof, and the commissioner of finance shall be bonded. The head of the department of law shall be known as the attorney general of the Virgin Islands. Members of school boards, which entities of government have been duly organized and established by the government of the Virgin Islands, shall be popularly elected.
**(b) Changes after examination from time to time** The Governor shall, from time to time, after complying with the provisions of subsection (a) of this section, examine the organization of the executive branch of the government of the Virgin Islands, and shall make such changes therein, subject to the approval of the legislature, not inconsistent with this chapter, as he determines are necessary to promote effective management and to execute faithfully the purposes of this chapter and the laws of the Virgin Islands.
**(c) Appointment of department heads; tenure; removal; powers and duties; appointments to boards, etc.** The heads of the executive departments created by this chapter shall be appointed by the Governor, with the advice and consent of the legislature. Each shall hold office during the continuance in office of the Governor by whom he is appointed and until his successor is appointed and qualified, unless sooner removed by the Governor. Each shall have such powers and duties as may be prescribed by the legislature. The chairman and members of any board, authority, or commission established by the laws of the Virgin Islands shall, if the laws of the Virgin Islands hereafter provide, also be appointed by the Governor with the advice and consent of the legislature, if such board, authority, or commission has quasi-judicial functions: Provided, That no law of the Virgin Islands dealing with the chairmanship, membership, or chairmanship and membership of any such board, authority, or commission, and requiring an appointment or appointments to be made with the advice and consent of the legislature, shall relate to more than one such board, authority, or commission, nor shall it relate to any other legislative matter.
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The executive power of the Virgin Islands shall be vested in an executive officer whose official title shall be the “Governor of the Virgin Islands”. The Governor of the Virgin Islands, together with the Lieutenant Governor, shall be elected by a majority of the votes cast by the people who are qualified to vote for the members of the legislature of the Virgin Islands. The Governor and Lieutenant Governor shall be chosen jointly, by the casting by each voter of a single vote applicable to both officers. If no candidates receive a majority of the votes cast in any election, on the fourteenth day thereafter a run-off election shall be held between the candidates for Governor and Lieutenant Governor receiving the highest and second highest number of votes cast. The first election for Governor and Lieutenant Governor shall be held on November 3, 1970. Thereafter, beginning with the year 1974, the Governor and Lieutenant Governor shall be elected every four years at the general election. The Governor and Lieutenant Governor shall hold office for a term of four years and until their successors are elected and qualified. No person who has been elected Governor for two full successive terms shall be again eligible to hold that office until one full term has intervened. The term of the elected Governor and Lieutenant Governor shall commence on the first Monday of January following the date of election.
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TITLE 48—TERRITORIES AND INSULAR POSSESSIONS
§ 1597
hire allowance and reimbursement for transportation
expenses of the Delegate from the Virgin Islands to the
House of Representatives.
§ 1597. Reorganization of government
(a) Consolidation of departments, bureaus, etc.;
popular election of school board members
The Governor shall, within one year after July
22, 1954, reorganize and consolidate the existing
executive departments, bureaus, independent
boards, agencies, authorities, commissions, and
other instrumentalities of the government of
the Virgin Islands or of the municipal govern-
ments into not more than nine executive depart-
ments except for independent bodies whose ex-
istence may be required by Federal law for par-
ticipation in Federal programs. The head of each
executive department other than the depart-
ment of law shall be designated as the commis-
sioner thereof, and the commissioner of finance
shall be bonded. The head of the department of
law shall be known as the attorney general of
the Virgin Islands. Members of school boards,
which entities of government have been duly or-
ganized and established by the government of
the Virgin Islands, shall be popularly elected.
(b) Changes after examination from time to time
The Governor shall, from time to time, after
complying with the provisions of subsection (a)
of this section, examine the organization of the
executive branch of the government of the Vir-
gin Islands, and shall make such changes there-
in, subject to the approval of the legislature, not
inconsistent with this chapter, as he determines
are necessary to promote effective management
and to execute faithfully the purposes of this
chapter and the laws of the Virgin Islands.
(c) Appointment of department heads;
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