[Code of Federal Regulations]

[Title 46, Volume 4]

[Revised as of October 1, 2006]

From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access

[CITE: 46CFR113.25-5]



[Page 264]

 

                            TITLE 46_SHIPPING



                  (This book contains parts 90 to 139)

 

   CHAPTER I--COAST GUARD, DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY (CONTINUED)

 

PART 113_COMMUNICATION AND ALARM SYSTEMS AND EQUIPMENT--Table of Contents

 

             Subpart 113.25_General Emergency Alarm Systems

 

Sec.  113.25-5  Location of contact makers.



    (a) Passenger vessels and cargo and miscellaneous vessels. Each 

passenger vessel, cargo vessel, and miscellaneous vessel must have a 

manually operated contact maker for the general emergency alarm system:

    (1) In the navigating bridge; and

    (2) At the feeder distribution panel if the general alarm power 

supply is not in or next to the navigating bridge.

    (b) Tank vessels. Each tank vessel must have a manually operated 

contact maker for the general emergency alarm system:

    (1) In the navigating bridge;

    (2) At the deck officers' quarters farthest from the engineroom;

    (3) in the engineroom;

    (4) At the location of the emergency means of stopping cargo 

transfer required under 33 CFR 155.780; and

    (5) At the feeder distribution panel if the general alarm power 

supply is not in or next to the navigating bridge.

    (c) Mobile offshore drilling units. Each mobile offshore drilling 

unit must have a manually operated contact maker for the general 

emergency alarm system:

    (1) In the main control room;

    (2) At the drilling console;

    (3) At the feeder distribution panel;

    (4) In the navigating bridge, if a navigating bridge is installed; 

and

    (5) In a routinely occupied space that is as far as practicable from 

all other contact makers.

    (d) Additional contact maker. A vessel must not have more than one 

other contact maker that operates the general emergency alarm system in 

addition to those required under paragraph (a), (b), or (c) of this 

section unless the installation of other contact makers has been 

accepted by the Commandant.

    (e) Special system. If a vessel has an emergency squad when 

operating, has a manual fire alarm system, or is an ocean-going 

passenger vessel, it must have:

    (1) An independent manually operated contact maker in the navigating 

bridge that is connected to operate only the general emergency alarm 

signal in crew's quarters and machinery spaces; or

    (2) A separate alarm system that sounds in the crew's quarters and 

machinery spaces.