---
kind: "section"
citation: "46 C.F.R. § 108.157"
title: "46"
number: "108.157"
heading: "Locked doors."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/46/108.157"
---

# §108.157. Locked doors.


No door to the required means of escape may be designed to lock except—

- (a) A crash door or a door that has a locking device that can be easily forced, if on both sides of the door a permanent and easily seen instruction is placed; or
- (b) An outside door to a deckhouse if the door can be locked by key only and if the master or person in charge has control of the key to the door's lock.

## Notes

### Authority

Authority: 43 U.S.C. 1333; 46 U.S.C. 3102, 3306; DHS Delegation No. 00170.1, Revision No. 01.4.

### Source

Source: CGD 73-251, 43 FR 56808, Dec. 4, 1978, unless otherwise noted.