---
kind: "section"
citation: "33 C.F.R. § 143.15"
title: "33"
number: "143.15"
heading: "Lights and warning devices."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/33/143.15"
---

# §143.15. Lights and warning devices.

- (a) OCS facilities must meet the lights and warning devices requirements under [part 67](/cfr/33/part67.md) of this chapter concerning aids to navigation on artificial islands and fixed structures.
- (b) Vessels, including attending vessels but excluding MODUs under [paragraph (a)](#a) of this section, must meet the lights and warning devices requirements under the International Regulations for Preventing Collisions at Sea 1972 or under local rules provided for in [Rule 1](/cfr/33/1.md) of those Regulations.

## Notes

### Amendments

[CGD 78-160, 47 FR 9382, Mar. 4, 1982, as amended by USCG-1998-3799, 63 FR 35530, June 30, 1998]

### Authority

Authority: 43 U.S.C. 1333(d)(1), 1348(c), 1356; 49 CFR 1.46; section 143.210 is also issued under 14 U.S.C. 946 and 31 U.S.C. 9701.

### Source

Source: CGD 78-160, 47 FR 9382, Mar. 4, 1982, unless otherwise noted.

### Amendments

[CGD 78-160, 47 FR 9382, Mar. 4, 1982, as amended by USCG-1998-3799, 63 FR 35530, June 30, 1998]