---
kind: "section"
citation: "46 C.F.R. § 128.130"
title: "46"
number: "128.130"
heading: "Vital systems."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/46/128.130"
---

# §128.130. Vital systems.

- (a) **Vital systems are those systems that are vital to a vessel's survivability and safety.** For the purpose of this subchapter, the following are vital systems:
  - (1) **Systems for fill, transfer, and service of fuel oil.**
  - (2) **Fire-main systems.**
  - (3) **Fixed gaseous fire-extinguishing systems.**
  - (4) **Bilge systems.**
  - (5) **Ballast systems.**
  - (6) **Steering systems and steering-control systems.**
  - (7) **Propulsion systems and their necessary auxiliaries and control systems.**
  - (8) Systems for transfer and control of cargo, for integral tanks or fixed independent tanks, in compliance with [§ 125.110](/cfr/46/125.110.md) of this subchapter.
  - (9) Ship's service and emergency electrical-generation systems and their auxiliaries vital to the vessel's survivability and safety.
  - (10) Any other marine-engineering system identified by the cognizant OCMI as crucial to the survival of the vessel or to the protection of the personnel aboard.
- (b) For the purpose of this subchapter, a system not identified by [paragraph (a)](#a) of this section is a non-vital system.

## 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 49331, Sept. 19, 1997, unless otherwise noted.