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[CITE: 48USC1405q]

 
              TITLE 48--TERRITORIES AND INSULAR POSSESSIONS
 
                        CHAPTER 7--VIRGIN ISLANDS
 
                     SUBCHAPTER II--CIVIL GOVERNMENT
 
Sec. 1405q. Laws continued in force until modified; patent, 
        trade mark, and copyright laws extended to Virgin Islands; 
        jurisdiction of district court
        
    The laws of the United States applicable to the Virgin Islands on 
June 22, 1936, and all local laws and ordinances in force on such date 
in the Virgin Islands, not inconsistent with this subchapter, shall 
continue in force and effect: Provided, That the Municipal Council of 
Saint Croix and the Municipal Council of Saint Thomas and Saint John, 
and the legislative assembly, shall have power when not inconsistent 
with this subchapter and within their respective jurisdictions, to 
amend, alter, modify, or repeal any law of the United States of local 
application only, or any ordinance, public or private, civil or 
criminal, continued in force and effect by this subchapter, except as 
herein otherwise provided, and to enact new laws and ordinances not 
inconsistent with this subchapter and not inconsistent with the laws of 
the United States hereafter made applicable to the Virgin Islands or any 
part thereof, subject to the power of the Congress to annul the same. 
The laws of the United States relating to patents, trade marks, and 
copyrights, and to the enforcement of rights arising thereunder, shall 
have the same force and effect in the Virgin Islands as in the 
continental United States, and the District Court of the Virgin Islands 
shall have the same jurisdiction in causes arising under such laws as is 
exercised by United States district courts.

(June 22, 1936, ch. 699, Sec. 18, 49 Stat. 1811.)

                       References in Text

    The laws of the United States relating to patents, trade marks, and 
copyrights, referred to in text, are classified generally to Title 35, 
Patents, chapter 22 (Sec. 1051 et seq.) of Title 15, Commerce and Trade, 
and Title 17, Copyrights.


                            Cross References

    Jurisdiction of District Court of the Virgin Islands, see section 
1612 of this title.
    Provisions of this subchapter, not inconsistent with section 1541 et 
seq. of this title as continued in force and effect, see section 1574 of 
this title.
