[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 46, Volume 1]
[Revised as of October 1, 2008]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 46CFR28.130]

[Page 340]
 
                           TITLE 46--SHIPPING
 
         CHAPTER I--COAST GUARD, DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY
 
PART 28_REQUIREMENTS FOR COMMERCIAL FISHING INDUSTRY VESSELS--
Table of Contents
 
                 Subpart B_Requirements for All Vessels
 
Sec. 28.130  Survival craft equipment.

    (a) General. Each item of survival craft equipment must be of good 
quality, effective for the purpose it is intended to serve, and secured 
to the craft.
    (b) Inflatable liferafts. Each inflatable liferaft must have one of 
the following equipment packs as shown by the markings on its container:
    (1) Coastal Service;
    (2) SOLAS B Pack (formerly ``Limited Service''); or
    (3) SOLAS A Pack (formerly ``Ocean Service'').
    (c) Each life float and buoyant apparatus must be fitted with a 
lifeline, pendants, a painter, and a floating electric water light 
approved under part 161 subpart 161.010 of this chapter.
    (d) Other survival craft. A vessel must not carry survival craft 
other than inflatable liferafts, life floats, inflatable buoyant 
apparatus, or buoyant apparatus, such as lifeboats or rigid liferafts, 
unless the survival craft and launching equipment comply with the 
requirements for installation, arrangement, equipment, and maintenance 
contained in 46 CFR part 199.

[CGD 88-079, 56 FR 40393, Aug. 14, 1991, as amended by CGD 84-069, 63 FR 
52813, Oct. 1, 1998]