[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: 46CFR113.35-5]



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                            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 113.35_Engine Order Telegraph Systems

 

Sec.  113.35-5  Electric engine order telegraph systems.



    (a) Each electric engine order telegraph system must have 

transmitters and indicators that are electrically connected to each 

other.

    (b) Each engineroom indicator must be capable of acknowledgment of 

orders.

    (c) There must be an audible signal at each instrument. The signal 

at both locations must sound continuously when the transmitter and the 

indicator do not show the same order.

    (d) Each telegraph instrument must meet the protection requirements 

of Sec.  111.01-9 of this chapter.

    (e) Each system must have an alarm which--

    (1) Automatically sounds and visually signals a loss of power to the 

system;

    (2) Is on the navigating bridge; and

    (3) Has a means to reduce the audible signal from 100 percent to not 

less than 50 percent.



[CGD 74-125A, 47 FR 15272, Apr. 8, 1982, as amended by CGD 94-108, 61 FR 

28290, June 4, 1996]