---
kind: "section"
citation: "49 C.F.R. § 192.359"
title: "49"
number: "192.359"
heading: "Customer meter installations: Operating pressure."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/49/192.359"
---

# §192.359. Customer meter installations: Operating pressure.

- (a) A meter may not be used at a pressure that is more than 67 percent of the manufacturer's shell test pressure.
- (b) Each newly installed meter manufactured after November 12, 1970, must have been tested to a minimum of 10 p.s.i. (69 kPa) gage.
- (c) A rebuilt or repaired tinned steel case meter may not be used at a pressure that is more than 50 percent of the pressure used to test the meter after rebuilding or repairing.

## Notes

### Amendments

[35 FR 13257, Aug. 19, 1970, as amended by Amdt. 192-1, 35 FR 17660, Nov. 17, 1970; Amdt. 192-85, 63 FR 37503, July 13, 1998]

### Authority

Authority: 30 U.S.C. 185(w)(3), 49 U.S.C. 5103, 60101 et. seq., and 49 CFR 1.97.

### Source

Source: 35 FR 13257, Aug. 19, 1970, unless otherwise noted.

### Amendments

[35 FR 13257, Aug. 19, 1970, as amended by Amdt. 192-1, 35 FR 17660, Nov. 17, 1970; Amdt. 192-85, 63 FR 37503, July 13, 1998]