---
kind: "section"
citation: "46 C.F.R. § 108.601"
title: "46"
number: "108.601"
heading: "Crane design."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/46/108.601"
---

# §108.601. Crane design.

- (a) Each crane and crane foundation on a unit must be designed in accordance with the American Petroleum Institute Specification for Offshore Cranes, API Spec. 2C, Second Edition, February, 1972 (with supplement 2).
- (b) In addition to the design requirements of [paragraph (a)](#a), each crane must have the following:
  - (1) **Each control marked to show its function.**
  - (2) **Instruments with built-in lighting.**
  - (3) **Fuel tank fills and overflows that do not run onto the engine exhaust.**
  - (4) **No gasoline engines.**
  - (5) **Spark arrestors fitted on engine exhaust pipes.**

## 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.