---
kind: "section"
citation: "49 C.F.R. § 195.438"
title: "49"
number: "195.438"
heading: "Smoking or open flames."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/49/195.438"
---

# §195.438. Smoking or open flames.


Each operator shall prohibit smoking and open flames in each pump station area and each breakout tank area where there is a possibility of the leakage of a flammable hazardous liquid or of the presence of flammable vapors.


## 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: Amdt. 195-22, 46 FR 38360, July 27, 1981, unless otherwise noted.