Regulations last checked for updates: Dec 20, 2025

Title 33 - Navigation and Navigable Waters last revised: Dec 12, 2025
§ 159.63 - Access to parts.

Each part of the device that is required by the manufacturer's instructions to be serviced routinely must be readily accessible in the installed position of the device recommended by the manufacturer.

authority: 33 U.S.C. 1322(b)(1); 49 CFR 1.45(b). Subpart E also issued under authority of sec. 1(a)(4), Pub. L. 106-554, 114 Stat. 2763; DHS Delegation No. 00170.1, Revision No. 01.4
source: CGD 73-83, 40 FR 4624, Jan. 30, 1975, unless otherwise noted.
cite as: 33 CFR 159.63