§ 80.831 - Survival craft portable radiotelegraph equipment.

Link to an amendment published at 68 FR 46973, Aug. 7, 2003.

(a) Survival craft portable radiotelegraph equipment required by law to be provided must be certificated by the Commission as capable of meeting the provisions of §§ 80.263 and 80.265.

(b) The equipment must be stowed in the radio room, bridge or a protected location near a lifeboat and be readily accessible for transfer to a lifeboat. However, in tankers of 3,000 gross tons and over in which lifeboats are fitted amidships and aft, this equipment must be kept in a suitable place in the vicinity of those lifeboats which are farthest away from the ship's main transmitter.

(c) Equipment for totally enclosed lifeboats must meet the extra requirements specified in § 80.265.

Effective Date Note:

At 68 FR 46973, Aug. 7, 2003, § 80.831 was removed, effective October 6, 2003.