---
kind: "section"
citation: "46 C.F.R. § 62.35-10"
title: "46"
number: "62.35-10"
heading: "Flooding safety."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/46/62.35-10"
---

# §62.35-10. Flooding safety.

- (a) **Automatic bilge pumps must—**
  - (1) Be provided with bilge high level alarms that annunciate in the machinery spaces and at a manned control location and are independent of the pump controls;
  - (2) Be monitored to detect excessive operation in a specified time period; and
  - (3) **Meet all applicable pollution control requirements.**
- (b) Remote controls for flooding safety equipment must remain functional under flooding conditions.
- (c) Remote bilge level sensors, where provided, must be located to detect flooding at an early stage and to provide redundant coverage.

## Notes

### Source

Source: CGD 81-030, 53 FR 17838, May 18, 1988, as amended by USCG-2020-0634, 89 FR 50192, June 12, 2024, unless otherwise noted.

### Authority

Authority: 46 U.S.C. 3306, 3703, 8105; sec. 617, Pub. L. 111-281, 124 Stat. 2905; E.O. 12234, 45 FR 58801, 3 CFR, 1980 Comp., p. 277; DHS Delegation No. 00170.1, Revision No. 01.4.

### Source

Source: CGD 81-030, 53 FR 17838, May 18, 1988, unless otherwise noted.