Smith v. Magras

WEIS,

dissenting

The Territorial Court and the Appellate Division of the District Court of the Virgin Islands read the licensing provisions as a whole and construed them to be generally directed to business entities, partnerships, and corporations, rather than to individual employees. I agree and would affirm.

The statute says in very broad terms that "[e]very person or association wishing to engage in any business, occupation, profession, or trade listed in § 302" must obtain a license. VI. Code Ann. tit. 27, § 301(a) (1997). In turn, § 302 lists several hundred occupations, services,…