---
kind: "section"
citation: "46 C.F.R. § 176.702"
title: "46"
number: "176.702"
heading: "Installation tests and inspections."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/46/176.702"
---

# §176.702. Installation tests and inspections.


Whenever a launching appliance, survival craft, rescue boat, fixed gas fire extinguishing system, machinery, fuel tank, or pressure vessel is installed aboard a vessel after completion of the initial inspection for certification of the vessel, as replacement equipment or as a new installation, the owner or managing operator shall conduct the tests and make the vessel ready for the inspections required by [§ 176.402(d)](/cfr/46/176.402.md?p=d) to the satisfaction of the cognizant OCMI.


## Notes

### Authority

Authority: 33 U.S.C. 1321(j); 46 U.S.C. 2103, 3205, 3306, 3307; 49 U.S.C. App. 1804; E.O. 11735, 38 FR 21243, 3 CFR, 1971-1975 Comp., p. 743; E.O. 12234, 45 FR 58801, 3 CFR, 1980 Comp., p. 277; Department of Homeland Security Delegation No. 0170.1.

### Source

Source: CGD 85-080, 61 FR 953, Jan. 10, 1996, unless otherwise noted.