[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: 46CFR111.75-1]



[Page 236-237]

 

                            TITLE 46_SHIPPING



                  (This book contains parts 90 to 139)

 

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

 

PART 111_ELECTRIC SYSTEMS_GENERAL REQUIREMENTS--Table of Contents

 

             Subpart 111.75_Lighting Circuits and Protection

 

Sec.  111.75-1  Lighting feeders.





    (a) Passenger vessels. On a passenger vessel with fire bulkheads 

forming main vertical and horizontal fire zones, the lighting 

distribution system, including low location egress lighting where 

installed, must be arranged so that, to the maximum extent possible, a 

fire in any main vertical and horizontal fire zone does not interfere 

with the lighting in any other fire zone. This requirement is met if 

main and emergency feeders passing through any



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zone are separated both vertically and horizontally as widely as 

practicable.

    (b) Machinery spaces. Lighting for enginerooms, boilerrooms, and 

auxiliary machinery spaces must be supplied from two or more feeders. 

One of these feeders must be a ship's service feeder.

    Note: Special requirements for emergency lighting, feeders, and 

branch circuits are in subpart 112.43 of this chapter.



[CGD 74-125A, 47 FR 15236, Apr. 8, 1982, as amended by CGD 94-108, 61 FR 

28282, June 4, 1996; 61 FR 33045, June 26, 1996]