---
kind: "section"
citation: "30 C.F.R. § 20.6"
title: "30"
number: "20.6"
heading: "General requirements."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/30/20.6"
---

# §20.6. General requirements.

- (a) The lamps shall be durable in construction, practical in operation, and suitable for the service for which they are designed and approved.
- (b) The intensity of light, distribution of light, and battery capacity shall be adequate for the use for which the lamp is intended.
- (c) Battery terminals and leads therefrom, as well as the battery gas vents, shall be designed to minimize corrosion of the electrical contacts.
- (d) Bulbs and other replacement parts of the lamps shall be adequately marked as a means of identification.

## Notes

### Authority

Authority: 30 U.S.C. 957, 961.

### Source

Source: Schedule 10C, May 17, 1938, as amended at 5 FR 3467, Aug. 30, 1940, unless otherwise noted.