46 CFR 45.151
§ 45.151 Other openings.
United States · 46 CFR — Shipping · Status: effective
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- 46 CFR 45.151, § 45.151 Other openings, United States, version 1 as recorded 2026-07-09, yourstate.us, https://yourstate.us/provision/224808
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Each opening other than hatchways, machinery space openings, manholes, or flush scuttles—
(a) In freeboard decks, must be protected by an enclosed superstructure or by a deckhouse or companionway that is equal in strength and weathertightness to an enclosed superstructure; or
(b) In exposed superstructure decks or in the top of a deckhouse on freeboard decks that gives access to a space below the freeboard deck or a space within an enclosed superstructure, must be protected by a deckhouse or companionway.
Legislative history
This is a federal regulation, adopted through agency rulemaking under the Administrative Procedure Act — not enacted by a recorded vote of Congress.