Regulations last checked for updates: May 03, 2025

Title 46 - Shipping last revised: Mar 17, 2025
§ 58.25-45 - Buffers.

For each vessel on an ocean, coastwise, or Great Lakes voyage, steering gear other than hydraulic must be designed with suitable buffering arrangements to relieve the gear from shocks to the rudder.

authority: 43 U.S.C. 1333; 46 U.S.C. 3306,3703; E.O. 12234, 45 FR 58801, 3 CFR, 1980 Comp., p. 277; Department of Homeland Security Delegation No. 00170.1, Revision No. 01.3
source: CGFR 68-82, 33 FR 18878, Dec. 18, 1968, unless otherwise noted.
cite as: 46 CFR 58.25-45