The Code of Federal Regulations of the United States of America

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U.S. Government Printing Office, 1996
The Code of Federal Regulations is the codification of the general and permanent rules published in the Federal Register by the executive departments and agencies of the Federal Government.

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Page 204 - ... minimum, either by making each discharge serve for as many as possible of the sanitary and other pipes, or in any other satisfactory manner.
Page 416 - Standard Test Method for Measuring the Minimum Oxygen Concentration to Support Candle-like Combustion of Plastics (Oxygen Index).
Page 75 - Where the deck is partly sheathed amidships, the upper edge of the deck line is to pass through the point where the continuation outwards of the upper surface of the actual sheathing at amidships intersects the outer surface of the shell.
Page 60 - This is to certify that this ship has been surveyed and the freeboards have been assigned and load lines shown above have been marked...
Page 37 - Satisfactory means (in the form of guard rails, life lines, gangways or underdeck passages, etc.) shall be provided for the protection of the crew in getting to and from their quarters, the machinery space and all other parts used in the necessary work of the vessel. (e) Deck cargo carried on any vessel shall be so stowed that any opening which is in way of the cargo and which gives access to and from the crew's quarters, the machinery space and all other parts used in the necessary work of the vessel,...
Page 15 - A vessel subject to the load line acts or the 1966 Convention shall comply, as applicable, with the requirements regarding the zones and seasonal areas described in Subpart 42.30. (b) A port located on the boundary line between two zones or areas shall be regarded as within the zone or seasonal area from or into which the vessel arrives or departs.
Page 14 - ... shall not be so loaded as to submerge at any time when departing for a voyage by sea, or on the Great Lakes, or during the voyage, or on arrival, the applicable load lines marked on the sides of the vessel for the season of the year and the zone or area in which the vessel may be operating. (1) Merchant vessels of 150 gross tons or over, as described in §42.03-5 or §42.03-10, and on voyages subject to 46 USC 5101-5116.
Page 62 - Material alterations have been made to the hull or superstructure of the vessel, such as would necessitate the assignment of an increased freeboard. (d) The fittings and appliances for the protection of the openings, guardrails, freeing ports, or the means of access to the crew's quarters have not been maintained in as effective a condition as they were when the certificate was issued.
Page 90 - States or its possessions for a coastwise voyage by sea. By "coastwise voyage by sea" is meant a voyage on which a vessel in the usual course of her employment proceeds from one port or place in the United States or...
Page 191 - Provision shall be made to prevent the compartment served by any bilge suction pipe being flooded in the event of the pipe being severed, or otherwise damaged by collision or grounding, in any other compartment. For this purpose, where the pipe is at any part situated...

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