---
kind: "section"
citation: "46 C.F.R. § 131.560"
title: "46"
number: "131.560"
heading: "Weekly tests and inspections."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/46/131.560"
---

# §131.560. Weekly tests and inspections.


The following tests and inspections must be carried out weekly:

- (a) Each lifesaving appliance and launching appliance must be visually inspected to ensure that it is ready for use.
- (b) Each engine of a lifeboat or a rescue boat must be run ahead and astern for not less than 3 minutes, unless the ambient temperature is below the minimal temperature required for starting the engine.
- (c) The general alarm system must be activated.
- (d) Each battery for starting the engine of a lifeboat or a rescue boat, or for energizing a searchlight, a fixed installation of a radio in a lifeboat, or a portable radio, must be brought up to full charge at least once a week if the battery is—
  - (1) Of a type that requires recharging; and
  - (2) **Not connected to a device that keeps it continuously charged.**
- (e) The transmitter of each fixed installation of a radio in a lifeboat and that of each portable radio must be tried out at least once a week with a dummy antenna load.

## Notes

### Authority

Authority: 33 U.S.C. 1321(j); 46 U.S.C. 3306, 6101, 10104; E.O. 12234, 3 CFR, 1980 Comp., p. 277; E.O. 12777, 3 CFR, 1991 Comp., p. 351; DHS Delegation No. 00170.1, Revision No. 01.4. Section 131.990 also issued under sec. 617, Pub. L. 111-281, 124 Stat. 2905.

### Source

Source: CGD 82-004 and CGD 86-074, 62 FR 49340, Sept. 19, 1997, unless otherwise noted.