[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 46, Volume 2]
[Revised as of October 1, 2004]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 46CFR42.09-25]

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                           TITLE 46--SHIPPING
 
   CHAPTER I--COAST GUARD, DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY (CONTINUED)
 
PART 42_DOMESTIC AND FOREIGN VOYAGES BY SEA--Table of Contents
 
  Subpart 42.09_Load Line Assignments and Surveys_General Requirements
 
Sec. 42.09-25  Initial or periodic survey requirements for all vessels.

    (a) Before a survey may be completed, the vessel shall be placed in 
a drydock or hauled out. The surveyor shall be given complete access to 
all parts of the vessel to ensure that the vessel complies with all 
applicable requirements.
    (b) The surveyor shall examine on all vessels the items, etc., 
listed in this paragraph to determine if in satisfactory condition and 
meeting applicable requirements in this subchapter.
    (1) Cargo hatch coamings, covers, beams and supports, gaskets, 
clamps, locking bars, tarpaulins, battens, cleats and wedges of hatches 
on exposed freeboard, quarter and superstructure decks, and elsewhere as 
may be necessary.
    (2) Structure of the vessel, coamings, closures, and all means of 
protection provided for openings, such as for ventilators, 
companionways, machinery casings, fiddleys, funnels, enclosed 
superstructures on the freeboard deck (and their end bulkheads) or 
equivalent protective deck houses, openings in the freeboard and 
superstructure decks, and significant openings at higher levels in the 
vessel.
    (3) Transverse watertight subdivision bulkheads, as fitted, 
including any openings therein and closures for such openings. They 
shall be examined throughout their vertical and transverse extent.
    (4) All air-pipe outlets, their closures, all scuppers, and all 
sanitary discharges in the vessel's sides, including nonreturn valves 
installed.
    (5) The main and auxiliary sea inlets and discharges in the 
machinery space, and elsewhere if existent, and the valves and controls 
for these items.
    (6) All gangways, cargo ports, and airports, including dead covers 
or other similar openings in the vessel's sides and their closures.
    (7) All guardrails, bulwarks, gangways, and freeing port shutters, 
including securing devices, and bars.
    (8) All eye plates or similar fittings for timber (or other) deck-
cargo lashings, including the lashings, sockets for uprights and 
protective devices as may be necessary for ventilators and steering 
arrangements.

[CGFR 68-60, 33 FR 10056, July 12, 1968, as amended by CGFR 68-126, 34 
FR 9013, June 5, 1969]