---
kind: "section"
citation: "46 C.F.R. § 58.16-10"
title: "46"
number: "58.16-10"
heading: "Approvals."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/46/58.16-10"
---

# §58.16-10. Approvals.

- (a) **Gas appliances.**
  - (1) All gas-consuming appliances used for cooking and heating must be tested, listed, and labeled by an acceptable laboratory, such as:
    - (i) **The American Gas Association Testing Laboratories.**
    - (ii) **UL Solutions.**
  - (2) Continuous-burning pilot flames are prohibited for use on gas appliances when installed below the weather deck.
  - (3) Printed instructions for proper installation, operation, and maintenance of each gas-consuming appliance must be furnished by the manufacturer.
- (b) **Cylinders.**
  - (1) Cylinders in which liquefied petroleum gas is stored and handled must be constructed, tested, marked, maintained, and retested in accordance with [49 CFR part 178](/cfr/49/part178.md).
  - (2) All liquefied petroleum gas cylinders in service must bear a test date marking indicating that they have been retested in accordance with the regulations of the Department of Transportation.
  - (3) Regardless of the date of the previous test, a cylinder must be rejected for further service when it leaks; when it is weakened appreciably by corrosion, denting, bulging or other evidence of rough usage; when it has lost more than 5 percent of its tare weight; or when it has been involved in a fire.
- (c) **Safety-relief devices.** All required safety-relief devices must be accepted as to type, size, pressure setting, and location by the Commandant (CG-ENG) as being in accordance with [49 CFR part 178](/cfr/49/part178.md).
- (d) **Valves, regulators, and vaporizers.** All component parts of the system, other than cylinders and low-pressure distribution tubing between regulators and appliances, must be tested and approved by and bear the label of UL Solutions or other recognized testing laboratory.
- (e) **Plan approval.** Drawings showing the location and installation of all piping, gas-consuming appliances, cylinders, and other component parts of the system must be submitted for approval.

## Notes

### Source

Source: USCG-2020-0634, 89 FR 50173, June 12, 2024, unless otherwise noted.

### Authority

Authority: 43 U.S.C. 1333; 46 U.S.C. 3306, 3703; E.O. 12234, 45 FR 58801, 3 CFR, 1980 Comp., p. 277; DHS Delegation No. 00170.1, Revision No. 01.4.

### Source

Source: CGFR 68-82, 33 FR 18878, Dec. 18, 1968, unless otherwise noted.