§45.151. Other openings.
46 C.F.R. § 45.151
Each opening other than hatchways, machinery space openings, manholes, or flush scuttles—
In freeboard decks, must be protected by an enclosed superstructure or by a deckhouse or companionway that is equal in strength and weathertightness to an enclosed superstructure; or
In exposed superstructure decks or in the top of a deckhouse on freeboard decks that gives access to a space below the freeboard deck or a space within an enclosed superstructure, must be protected by a deckhouse or companionway.
Notes, amendments, and revision history
Authority
Authority: 46 U.S.C. 5104, 5108; Department of Homeland Security Delegation No. 0170.1.
Source
Source: CGD 73-49R, 38 FR 12290, May 10, 1973, unless otherwise noted.