---
kind: "section"
citation: "46 C.F.R. § 113.43-3"
title: "46"
number: "113.43-3"
heading: "Alarm system."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/46/113.43-3"
---

# §113.43-3. Alarm system.

- (a) Each vessel must have a steering failure alarm system that actuates an audible and visible alarm in the pilothouse when the actual position of the rudder differs by more than 5 degrees from the rudder position ordered by the followup control systems, required by [part 58](/cfr/46/part58.md), [subpart 58.25](/cfr/46/subpart58.25.md), of this chapter, for more than:
  - (1) 30 seconds for ordered rudder position changes of 70 degrees;
  - (2) 6.5 seconds for ordered rudder position changes of 5 degrees; and
  - (3) The time period calculated by the following formula for ordered rudder positions changes between 5 degrees and 70 degrees:
- (b) The alarm system must be separate from, and independent of, each steering gear control system, except for input received from the steering wheel shaft.

## Notes

### Amendments

[CGD 74-125A, 47 FR 15272, Apr. 8, 1982, as amended by CGD 94-108, 62 FR 23910, May 1, 1997; USCG-2004-18884, 69 FR 58348, Sept. 30, 2004]

### 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.

### Amendments

[CGD 74-125A, 47 FR 15272, Apr. 8, 1982, as amended by CGD 94-108, 62 FR 23910, May 1, 1997; USCG-2004-18884, 69 FR 58348, Sept. 30, 2004]