---
kind: "section"
citation: "46 C.F.R. § 108.595"
title: "46"
number: "108.595"
heading: "Communications."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/46/108.595"
---

# §108.595. Communications.

- (a) **Radio lifesaving appliances.** Radio lifesaving appliance installations and arrangements must meet the requirements of [47 CFR part 80](/cfr/47/part80.md).
- (b) **Distress flares.** Each unit must—
  - (1) Carry not less than 12 rocket parachute flares approved under approval series 160.136; and
  - (2) Stow the flares in a portable watertight container carried on the navigating bridge, or if the unit does not have a bridge, in the control room.

## Notes

### Source

Source: CGD 84-069, 61 FR 25291, May 20, 1996, unless otherwise noted.

### 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.