---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 C.F.R. § 1505.51"
title: "16"
number: "1505.51"
heading: "Hot surfaces."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/16/1505.51"
---

# §1505.51. Hot surfaces.

- (a) **Test probe.** [Section 1505.6(g)(2)](/cfr/16/1505.6.md?p=g-2) defines accessibility, for certain paragraphs, as the ability to reach a heated surface with a 1/4-inch-diameter rod 3 inches long. To test for accessibility using this test probe, it shall be inserted no more than 3 inches into any opening in the toy. Unless the probe contacts a surface within 3 inches of the plane of the toy's opening, that surface is not accessible.
- (b) **Accessibility of Type C and C-marked surfaces.** Under [§ 1505.6(g)(2)](/cfr/16/1505.6.md?p=g-2) (iii) and (iv), touching by casual contact or without employing the aid of a common household tool shall be determined by use of the accessibility test probe described in §§ [1505.6(g)(2)](/cfr/16/1505.6.md?p=g-2) and [1505.51(a)](#a).

## Notes

### Amendments

[51 FR 34199, Sept. 26, 1986]

### Authority

Authority: 15 U.S.C. 1261-1262, 2079.

### Source

Source: 38 FR 27032, Sept. 27, 1973, unless otherwise noted.

### Amendments

[51 FR 34199, Sept. 26, 1986]