Authority
The Revised Organic Act of the Virgin Islands of 1954 (Pub.L. 83-517, 68 Stat. 497, enacted July 22, 1954) is the current Organic Act defining the government of the United States Virgin Islands acquired by the Treaty of the Danish West Indies of 1916. It replaced the Organic Act of the Virgin Islands of 1936 (Pub.L. 74-749, 49 Stat. 1807, enacted June 22, 1936) and the earlier temporary provisions (Pub.L. 64-389, 39 Stat. 1132, enacted March 3, 1917).
It was subsequently amended by Pub.L. 85-851 (Pub.L. 85-851, 72 Stat. 1094, enacted August 28, 1958) which prohibited political or religious tests but required a loyalty oath as qualification to any office or public trust, by the Virgin Islands Elective Governor Act (Pub.L. 90-496, 82 Stat. 837, enacted August 23, 1968) which made the Governor an elected office, by Pub.L. 98-213 (Pub.L. 98-213, 97 Stat. 1459, enacted December 8, 1983), and by Pub.L. 98-454 (Pub.L. 98-454, 98 Stat. 1732, enacted October 5, 1984), which removed the reight to indictment for certain crimes and removed the jurisdiction of the admiralty courts.
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