---
kind: "section"
citation: "49 C.F.R. § 192.365"
title: "49"
number: "192.365"
heading: "Service lines: Location of valves."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/49/192.365"
---

# §192.365. Service lines: Location of valves.

- (a) **Relation to regulator or meter.** Each service-line valve must be installed upstream of the regulator or, if there is no regulator, upstream of the meter.
- (b) **Outside valves.** Each service line must have a shut-off valve in a readily accessible location that, if feasible, is outside of the building.
- (c) **Underground valves.** Each underground service-line valve must be located in a covered durable curb box or standpipe that allows ready operation of the valve and is supported independently of the service lines.

## Notes

### 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.