---
kind: "section"
citation: "46 C.F.R. § 108.665"
title: "46"
number: "108.665"
heading: "Appliances for watertight integrity."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/46/108.665"
---

# §108.665. Appliances for watertight integrity.


Each watertight door, scuttle, and hatch required for watertight integrity, which may be opened during normal operations must be marked in letters of contrasting color to the background “KEEP CLOSED”.


## 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.