---
kind: "section"
citation: "46 C.F.R. § 28.360"
title: "46"
number: "28.360"
heading: "Electrical distribution systems."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/46/28.360"
---

# §28.360. Electrical distribution systems.

- (a) Each electrical distribution system which has a neutral bus or conductor must have the neutral bus or conductor grounded.
- (b) A grounded electrical distribution system must have only one connection to ground. This ground connection must be at the switchboard or, on a nonmetallic vessel, at the common ground point.

## Notes

### Authority

Authority: 46 U.S.C. 3316, 4502, 4505, 4506, 6104, 8103, 10603; DHS Delegation 00170.1, Revision No. 01.4.

### Source

Source: CGD 88-079, 56 FR 40393, Aug. 14, 1991, unless otherwise noted.