Regulations last checked for updates: May 03, 2025

Title 46 - Shipping last revised: Mar 17, 2025
§ 28.305 - Lifesaving and signaling equipment.

Each vessel to which this subpart applies must meet the requirements for life preservers, immersion suits, ring life buoys, distress signals, and survival craft in §§ 28.110, 28.115, 28.145 and table 28.120 (a), (b), or (c), as appropriate for the vessel type, on the date that its construction or major conversion is completed.

authority: 46 U.S.C. 3316,4502,4505,4506,6104,8103,10603; DHS Delegation 00170.1, Revision No. 01.4
source: CGD 88-079, 56 FR 40393, Aug. 14, 1991, unless otherwise noted.
cite as: 46 CFR 28.305