[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 46, Volume 4]
[Revised as of October 1, 2002]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 46CFR111.75-15]

[Page 239]
 
                           TITLE 46--SHIPPING
 
    CHAPTER I--COAST GUARD, DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION (CONTINUED)
 
PART 111--ELECTRIC SYSTEMS--GENERAL REQUIREMENTS--Table of Contents
 
            Subpart 111.75--Lighting Circuits and Protection
 
Sec. 111.75-15  Lighting requirements.

    (a) Lights in passageways, public spaces, and berthing compartments. 
The supply to lights in each passageway, public space, or berthing 
compartment accommodating more than 25 persons must be divided between 
two or more branch circuits, one of which may be an emergency branch 
circuit.
    (b) Lights in machinery spaces. Alternate groups of lights in an 
engineroom, boilerroom, or auxiliary machinery space must be arranged so 
that the failure of one branch circuit does not leave an area without 
light.
    (c) Illumination of passenger and crew spaces. (1) Each space used 
by passengers or crew must be fitted with lighting that provides for a 
safe habitable and working environment under normal conditions.
    (2) Sufficient illumination must be provided by the emergency 
lighting source under emergency conditions to effect damage control 
procedures and to provide for safe egress from each space.
    (d) Berth lights. Each crew berth must have a fixed berth light that 
is not wired with a flexible cord. The berth light must have minimum 
horizontal projection so that the light may not be covered with bedding.
    (e) Exit lights. Each exit light required on passenger vessels under 
Sec. 112.15-1 of this subchapter must have the word ``Exit'' in red 
block letters at least 2 inches (50 mm) high.
    (f) Pilot ladders. There must be a means for lighting each station 
from which a pilot may be deployed.

[CGD 74-125A, 47 FR 15236, Apr. 8, 1982, as amended by CGD 94-108, 61 FR 
28282, June 4, 1996]