---
kind: "section"
citation: "49 C.F.R. § 178.255-6"
title: "49"
number: "178.255-6"
heading: "Loading and unloading accessories."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/49/178.255-6"
---

# §178.255-6. Loading and unloading accessories.

- (a) When installed, gauging, loading and air inlet devices, including their valves, shall be provided with adequate means for their secure closure; and means shall also be provided for the closing of pipe connections of valves.
- (b) Interior heater coils, if installed, must be of extra heavy pipe and so constructed that breaking off of exterior connections will not cause leakage of tanks.

## Notes

### Source

Source: 29 FR 18972, Dec. 29, 1964, unless otherwise noted. Redesignated at 32 FR 5606, Apr. 5, 1967.

### Authority

Authority: 49 U.S.C. 5101-5128; 49 CFR 1.81 and 1.97.