Rule 16 Computation of Time.
Rule Text
(a) Application of Rule 9 of the Rules Governing the Superior Court. Computation of time for a matter being considered by the Superior Court while a case is on appeal is determined according to SUPER. CT. R. 9.
(b) Computation of Time. For purposes of proceedings in the Supreme Court, in computing any period of time prescribed or allowed by these Rules, by an order of the Court, or by any applicable statute, the day of the act, event, or default from which the designated period of time begins to run shall not be included. The last day of the period so computed shall be included, unless it is a Saturday, a Sunday, or a legal holiday, or, when the act to be done is the filing of a paper in court, a day on which weather or other conditions have made the office of the Clerk of the Supreme Court inaccessible, in which event the period runs until the next day which is not one of the aforementioned excluded days. As used in this Rule, "legal holiday" refers to the holidays specified in 1 V.I.C. § 171 and includes only January 1 (New Year's Day), January 6 (Three King's Day), Third Monday in January (Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Birthday), Third Monday in February (Presidents Day), March 31 (Transfer Day), Holy Thursday, Good Friday, Easter Monday, Last Monday in May (Memorial Day), July 3 (V.I. Emancipation Day), July 4 (Independence Day), First Monday in September (Labor Day), Second Monday in October (Columbus Day and Puerto Rico Friendship Day), November 1 (D. Hamilton Jackson Day), November 11 (Veterans Day), Fourth Thursday in November (Thanksgiving Day), December 25 (Christmas Day), December 26 (Christmas Second Day) and such other days as the President, or the Governor may by proclamation declare to be holidays.
(c) Additional Time After Service by Mail. Whenever a party is required or permitted to do an act within a prescribed period after service of a paper upon that party and the paper is served by mail, three days shall be added to the prescribed period.
(d) No Additional Time After Electronic Service. When a party may or must act within a specified time after documents are served electronically through VISCEFS, no additional time shall be added to the prescribed period.