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TITLE 46 - SHIPPING
CHAPTER I - COAST GUARD, DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY
SUBCHAPTER E - LOAD LINES
PART 42 - DOMESTIC AND FOREIGN VOYAGES BY SEA
42.15 - 50 - Air pipes.
(a) Where air pipes to ballast and other tanks extend above the freeboard or superstructure decks, the exposed parts of the pipes shall be of substantial construction; the height from the deck to the point where water may have access below shall be at least 30 inches on the freeboard deck and 17 1/2 inches on the superstructure deck. Where these heights may interfere with the working of the vessel, a lower height may be approved, provided the assigning authority is satisfied that the closing arrangements and other circumstances justify a lower height.
Satisfactory means permanently attached, shall be provided for closing the openings of the air pipes.
[CGFR 6860, 33 FR 10062, July 12, 1968, as amended by CGFR 68126, 34 FR 9014, June 5, 1969]
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