---
kind: "section"
citation: "46 C.F.R. § 113.25-5"
title: "46"
number: "113.25-5"
heading: "Location of contact makers."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/46/113.25-5"
---

# §113.25-5. Location of contact makers.

- (a) **Passenger vessels and cargo and miscellaneous vessels.** Each passenger vessel, cargo vessel, and miscellaneous vessel must have a manually operated contact maker for the general emergency alarm system:
  - (1) In the navigating bridge; and
  - (2) At the feeder distribution panel if the general alarm power supply is not in or next to the navigating bridge.
- (b) **Tank vessels.** Each tank vessel must have a manually operated contact maker for the general emergency alarm system:
  - (1) In the navigating bridge;
  - (2) At the deck officers' quarters farthest from the engineroom;
  - (3) in the engineroom;
  - (4) At the location of the emergency means of stopping cargo transfer required under [33 CFR 155.780](/cfr/33/155.780.md); and
  - (5) At the feeder distribution panel if the general alarm power supply is not in or next to the navigating bridge.
- (c) **Mobile offshore drilling units.** Each mobile offshore drilling unit must have a manually operated contact maker for the general emergency alarm system:
  - (1) In the main control room;
  - (2) At the drilling console;
  - (3) At the feeder distribution panel;
  - (4) In the navigating bridge, if a navigating bridge is installed; and
  - (5) **In a routinely occupied space that is as far as practicable from all other contact makers.**
- (d) **Additional contact maker.** A vessel must not have more than one other contact maker that operates the general emergency alarm system in addition to those required under paragraph [(a)](#a), [(b)](#b), or [(c)](#c) of this section unless the installation of other contact makers has been accepted by the Commandant.
- (e) **Special system.** If a vessel has an emergency squad when operating, has a manual fire alarm system, or is an ocean-going passenger vessel, it must have:
  - (1) An independent manually operated contact maker in the navigating bridge that is connected to operate only the general emergency alarm signal in crew's quarters and machinery spaces; or
  - (2) **A separate alarm system that sounds in the crew's quarters and machinery spaces.**

## Notes

### Authority

Authority: 46 U.S.C. 3306, 3703; DHS Delegation No. 00170.1, Revision No. 01.2.

### Source

Source: CGD 74-125A, 47 FR 15272, Apr. 8, 1982, unless otherwise noted.