{"data":{"id":"us/46-cfr-76.05-20","jurisdiction":"us","citation":"46 CFR 76.05-20","heading":"-20 Fixed fire extinguishing systems.","body":"Approved fire extinguishing systems must be installed, as required by Table 76.05-20 on all self-propelled vessels and on all barges with sleeping accommodations for more than six persons. Previously approved installations may be retained as long as they are maintained in good condition to the satisfaction of the Officer in Charge, Marine Inspection.\nTable 76.05-20—Required Fixed Extinguishing Systems\nSpace Fixed extinguishing systems\nSafety Areas\nWheelhouse or fire-control room None required.1\nStairway and elevator enclosures None required.1\nCommunication corridors None required.1\nLifeboat embarkation and lowering stations None required.\nRadio room None required.1\nAccommodations\nStaterooms, toilet spaces, isolated pantries, etc None required.1\nOffices, lockers, and isolated storerooms None required.1\nPublic spaces None required.1\nOpen decks or enclosed promenades None required.\nService Spaces\nGalleys None required.1\nMain pantries None required.1\nMotion picture booths and film lockers None required.1 2\nPaint and lamp rooms Carbon dioxide.3\nInaccessible baggage, mail, and specie rooms and storerooms Carbon dioxide.3\nAccessible baggage, mail, and specie rooms and storerooms None required.1\nRefrigerated storerooms None required.\nCarpenter, valet, photographic, and printing shops, sales rooms, etc None required.1\nMachinery spaces\nCoal fired boilers: Bunker and boiler space None required.1\nOil fired boilers: Spaces containing oil fired boilers either main or auxiliary, their fuel oil service pumps, and/or such other fuel oil units as the heaters, strainers, valves, manifolds, etc., that are subject to the discharge pressure of the fuel oil service pumps, together with adjacent spaces to which oil can drain Carbon dioxide or foam.4\nInternal combustion or gas turbine propelling machinery spaces Carbon dioxide.5\nElectric propulsive motors or generators of open type None required.\nEnclosed ventilating systems for motors and generators of electric propelling machinery Carbon dioxide (in ventilating system).6\nAuxiliary spaces, internal combustion or gas turbine Carbon dioxide.7\nAuxiliary spaces, electric motors or generators None required.\nAuxiliary spaces, steam None required.\nTrunks to machinery spaces None required.\nFuel tanks None required.8\nCargo Spaces\nInaccessible during voyage (combustible cargo), including trunks (excluding tanks) Carbon dioxide.3\nAccessible during voyage (combustible cargo) Automatic or manual sprinkler system.\nVehicular deck (except where no overhead deck is 30 feet (9.14 meters) in length or less) Manual sprinkler.\nCargo oil tanks Carbon dioxide or foam.3\nSpecially suitable for vehicles Carbon dioxide, automatic or manual sprinkler system.\n1 Vessels of 100 GT or more contracted for on or before May 27, 1936, and having combustible joiner work must be fitted with an automatic sprinkler system, except in relatively incombustible spaces.\n2 Sprinkler heads may be attached to a potable water system provided electrical or pneumatic detecting is installed.\n3 On vessels contracted for prior to January 1, 1962, a steam smothering system may be accepted. However, although existing steam smothering systems may be repaired, replaced, or extended, no new system contracted for on or after January 1, 1962, will be permitted.\n4 Protection of auxiliary boilers, fuel oil units, valves, and manifolds not required on vessels contracted for prior to November 19, 1952.\n5 Not required on vessels of less than 300 GT (except on an international voyage) using fuel with a flashpoint higher than 110 °F, where the space is normally manned.\n6 Not required on vessels contracted for prior to November 19, 1952.\n7 Not required on vessels of less than 300 GT or on vessels contracted for prior to November 19, 1952, except where fuel, including starting fuel, has a flashpoint of 110 °F or less.\n8 Where fuel having a flashpoint of 110 °F or lower is used the space containing the fuel tanks must be protected by a carbon dioxide system.","path":["Title 46—Shipping","CHAPTER I—COAST GUARD, DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY","SUBCHAPTER H—PASSENGER VESSELS","PART 76—FIRE PROTECTION EQUIPMENT","Subpart 76.05—Fire Detecting and Extinguishing Equipment, Where Required"],"source_url":"https://www.ecfr.gov/api/versioner/v1/full/2026-08-25/title-46.xml","current_through":"2026-08-25","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-08-27T02:26:22Z","sha256":"7877cb5192711ba1fa7898a2ef72b84ab3b8f6333baeb8ea1ec543a955c53da3","source_id":"us-cfr","stale":true,"prev":"us/46-cfr-76.05-15","next":"us/46-cfr-76.05-25"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}