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33 C.F.R. § 183.620 Natural ventilation system.Title 33 - Navigation and Navigable Waters
PART 183—BOATS AND ASSOCIATED EQUIPMENT Subpart K—Ventilation
Browse Previous | Browse Next§ 183.620 Natural ventilation system.
(a) Except for compartments open to the atmosphere, a natural ventilation system that meets the requirements of §183.630 must be provided for each compartment in a boat that: (1) Contains a permanently installed gasoline engine; (2) Has openings between it and a compartment that requires ventilation, where the aggregate area of those openings exceeds 2 percent of the area between the compartments, except as provided in paragraph (c) of this section; (3) Contains a permanently installed fuel tank and an electrical component that is not ignition protected in accordance with §183.410(a); (4) Contains a fuel tank that vents into that compartment; or (5) Contains a non-metallic fuel tank: (i) With an aggregate permeability rate exceeding 1.2 grams of fuel loss in 24 hours per cubic foot of net compartment volume, or (ii) If the net compartment volume is less than one cubic foot, having a permeability rate exceeding 1.2 grams of fuel loss in 24 hours. Note: Reference fuel “C” at 40 degrees Celsius plus or minus 2 degrees Celsius from ASTM standard D 471 (incorporated by reference, see §183.5) is to be used in determining the permeability rate. (b) Each supply opening required in §183.630 must be located on the exterior surface of the boat. (c) An accommodation compartment above a compartment requiring ventilation that is separated from the compartment requiring ventilation by a deck or other structure is excepted from paragraph (a)(2) of this section. [CGD 76–082, 44 FR 73027, Dec. 17, 1979, as amended by CGD 76–082(a), 46 FR 27645, May 21, 1981; CGD 85–059, 51 FR 37577, Oct. 23, 1986; USCG–1999–5832, 64 FR 34716, June 29, 1999; USCG–1999–5151, 64 FR 67176, Dec. 1, 1999]