---
kind: "section"
citation: "46 C.F.R. § 119.710"
title: "46"
number: "119.710"
heading: "Piping for vital systems."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/46/119.710"
---

# §119.710. Piping for vital systems.

- (a) **Vital systems are those systems that are vital to a vessel's survivability and safety.** For the purpose of this part the following are vital systems:
  - (1) Fuel systems;
  - (2) Fire main;
  - (3) Carbon dioxide, Halon 1301, and clean agent systems;
  - (4) Bilge system;
  - (5) Steering system;
  - (6) Propulsion system and its necessary auxiliaries and controls;
  - (7) Ship's service and emergency electrical generation system and its necessary auxiliaries; and
  - (8) A marine engineering system identified by the cognizant OCMI as being crucial to the survival of the vessel or to the protection of the personnel on board.
- (b) For the purpose of this part, a system not identified in [paragraph (a)](#a) of this section is a non-vital system.
- (c) Piping used in a vital system must meet [§ 56.60](/cfr/46/56.60.md) in subchapter F of this chapter, except that [§ 119.730](/cfr/46/119.730.md) of this part replaces [§ 56.60-20](/cfr/46/56.60-20.md) in subchapter F of this chapter.

## Notes

### Amendments

[CGD 85-080, 61 FR 922, Jan. 10, 1996, as amended by USCG-2006-24797, 77 FR 33883, June 7, 2012]

### Authority

Authority: 46 U.S.C. 2103, 3306; E.O. 12234, 45 FR 58801, 3 CFR, 1980 Comp., p. 277; DHS Delegation No. 00170.1, Revision No. 01.3.

### Source

Source: CGD 85-080, 61 FR 922, Jan. 10, 1996, unless otherwise noted.

### Amendments

[CGD 85-080, 61 FR 922, Jan. 10, 1996, as amended by USCG-2006-24797, 77 FR 33883, June 7, 2012]