---
kind: "section"
citation: "46 C.F.R. § 130.440"
title: "46"
number: "130.440"
heading: "Communications system."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/46/130.440"
---

# §130.440. Communications system.

- (a) Each OSV must have a communications system to immediately summon a crew member to the machinery space wherever one of the alarms required by [§ 130.460](/cfr/46/130.460.md) of this subpart is activated.
- (b) The communications system must be either—
  - (1) **An alarm that—**
    - (i) Is dedicated for this purpose;
    - (ii) Sounds in the crew accommodations and the normally manned spaces; and
    - (iii) Is operable from the pilothouse; or
  - (2) A telephone operated from the pilothouse that reaches the master's stateroom, engineer's stateroom, engine room, and crew accommodations that either—
    - (i) Is a sound-powered telephone; or
    - (ii) Gets its power from the emergency switchboard or from an independent battery continuously charged by its own charger.

## Notes

### Authority

Authority: 46 U.S.C. 3306; Department of Homeland Security Delegation No. 0170.1. Sections 130.140 and 130.400 also issued under sec. 617, Pub. L. 111-281, 124 Stat. 2905.

### Source

Source: CGD 82-004 and CGD 86-074, 62 FR 49337, Sept. 19, 1997, unless otherwise noted.