---
kind: "section"
citation: "46 C.F.R. § 154.1005"
title: "46"
number: "154.1005"
heading: "Equipment approval."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/46/154.1005"
---

# §154.1005. Equipment approval.

- (a) Electrical equipment that is required to be intrinsically safe or explosion proof under [§ 154.1010](/cfr/46/154.1010.md) must be specially approved by the Commandant or listed as intrinsically safe or explosion proof by an independent laboratory that is specially approved by the Commandant (CG-OES), for Class I Division I locations and the Group that is specified in Table 4 for the cargo carried.
- (b) Each submerged cargo pump motor installation must be specially approved by the Commandant (CG-OES).
- (c) Electrical equipment that must be intrinsically safe to meet [§ 154.1010](/cfr/46/154.1010.md) must meet the definition in [§ 110.15-100(i)](/cfr/46/110.15-100.md?p=i) of this chapter.
- (d) Electrical equipment that must be explosion proof to meet [§ 154.1010](/cfr/46/154.1010.md) must meet [§ 110.15-65(e)](/cfr/46/110.15-65.md?p=e) of this chapter.

## Notes

### Amendments

[CGD 74-289, 44 FR 26009, May 3, 1979, as amended by CGD 82-063b, 48 FR 4782, Feb. 3, 1983]

### Authority

Authority: 46 U.S.C. 3703, 9101; Department of Homeland Security Delegation No. 0170.1.

### Source

Source: CGD 74-289, 44 FR 26009, May 3, 1979, unless otherwise noted.

### Amendments

[CGD 74-289, 44 FR 26009, May 3, 1979, as amended by CGD 82-063b, 48 FR 4782, Feb. 3, 1983]