---
kind: "section"
citation: "46 C.F.R. § 108.423"
title: "46"
number: "108.423"
heading: "Fire hydrants and associated equipment."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/46/108.423"
---

# §108.423. Fire hydrants and associated equipment.

- (a) A fire main system must have enough fire hydrants so that each accessible space may be sprayed with at least two spray patterns of water.
- (b) In a main machinery space, except a shaft alley with no assigned space for stowage of combustibles, each spray pattern of water must be from one length of fire hose and each must be from a separate outlet. In all other spaces at least one spray pattern of water must be from one length of fire hose.
- (c) No outlet on a fire hydrant may point above the horizontal.
- (d) Each fire hydrant must have at least one spanner and at least one fire hose rack or reel.

## 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.