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U.S. Code as of:
01/19/04
Section 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.
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