---
kind: "section"
citation: "46 C.F.R. § 130.450"
title: "46"
number: "130.450"
heading: "Machinery alarms."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/46/130.450"
---

# §130.450. Machinery alarms.

- (a) Each alarm required by [§ 130.460](/cfr/46/130.460.md) of this subpart must be of the self-monitoring type that will both show visibly and sound audibly upon an opening or break in the sensing circuit.
- (b) The visible alarm must show until it is manually acknowledged and the condition is corrected.
- (c) The audible alarm must sound until it is manually silenced.
- (d) No silenced alarm may prevent any other audible alarm from sounding.
- (e) Each OSV must be provided with means for testing each visible and audible alarm.
- (f) Each OSV must provide battery power for the alarm required by [§ 130.460(a)(8)](/cfr/46/130.460.md?p=a-8) of this subpart.

## 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.