---
kind: "section"
citation: "46 C.F.R. § 127.270"
title: "46"
number: "127.270"
heading: "Location of accommodations and pilothouse."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/46/127.270"
---

# §127.270. Location of accommodations and pilothouse.

- (a) Neither quarters for crew members or offshore workers nor the pilothouse may be located forward of the collision bulkhead required by [§ 174.190](/cfr/46/174.190.md) of this chapter.
- (b) Except as provided in [paragraph (c)](#c) of this section, no part of any deck with accommodations for crew members or offshore workers may be below the deepest load waterline.
- (c) Any deck with accommodations for crew members or offshore workers may be below the deepest load waterline if—
  - (1) The vessel complies with the damage-stability requirements in [§ 174.205](/cfr/46/174.205.md) of this chapter; and
  - (2) **The deck head of the space is not below the deepest load waterline.**
- (d) No hawse pipe or chain pipe may pass through accommodations for crew members or offshore workers.
- (e) There must be no direct access, except through solid, close-fitted doors or hatches, between accommodations and chain lockers, cargo spaces, or machinery spaces.
- (f) No sounding tubes, or vents from fuel-oil or cargo-oil tanks may open into accommodations for crew members or offshore workers, except that sounding tubes may open into passageways.
- (g) No access openings from fuel-oil or cargo-oil tanks may open into quarters for crew members or offshore workers.
- (h) Quarters for crew members must be separate from and independent of those for offshore workers unless the cognizant OCMI approves an alternative arrangement.

## Notes

### Authority

Authority: 46 U.S.C. 3306; sec. 617, Pub. L. 111-281, 124 Stat. 2905; Department of Homeland Security Delegation No. 0170.1.

### Source

Source: CGD 82-004 and CGD 86-074, 62 FR 49328, Sept. 19, 1997, unless otherwise noted.