---
kind: "section"
citation: "33 C.F.R. § 158.420"
title: "33"
number: "158.420"
heading: "Reception facilities: Capacity and exceptions."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/33/158.420"
---

# §158.420. Reception facilities: Capacity and exceptions.


Each day a port or terminal is in operation, the person in charge of a port or terminal must provide, or ensure the availability of, a reception facility that is capable of receiving all garbage that the master or person who is in charge of a ship desires to discharge, except—

- (a) Large quantities of spoiled or damaged cargoes not usually discharged by a ship; or
- (b) **Garbage from ships not having commercial transactions with that port or terminal.**

## Notes

### Source

Source: CGD 88-002, 54 FR 18409, Apr. 28, 1989, unless otherwise noted.

### Authority

Authority: 33 U.S.C. 1903(b), 1905(c); 49 CFR 1.46.