46 CFR § 80.25 - Notification of safety standards.

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identifier: "/us/cfr/t46/s80.25"
source: "ecfr"
legal_status: "authoritative_unofficial"
title: "46 CFR § 80.25 - Notification of safety standards."
title_number: 46
title_name: "Shipping"
section_number: "80.25"
section_name: "Notification of safety standards."
chapter_name: "COAST GUARD, DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY"
subchapter_number: "H"
subchapter_name: "PASSENGER VESSELS"
part_number: "80"
part_name: "DISCLOSURE OF SAFETY STANDARDS AND COUNTRY OF REGISTRY"
positive_law: false
currency: "2026-03-24"
last_updated: "2026-03-24"
format_version: "1.1.0"
generator: "[email protected]"
authority: "46 U.S.C. 3306; Department of Homeland Security Delegation No. 0170.1."
regulatory_source: "CGD 72-187R, 38 FR 9081, Apr. 10, 1973, unless otherwise noted."
cfr_part: "80"
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# 80.25 Notification of safety standards.

(a) Each owner, operator, agent, or other person, selling passage for a coastwise or an international voyage embarking passengers at a United States port shall give to a prospective passenger, in writing, at the time of or before passage is booked, separately from any promotional literature or advertising used, a document containing the following information for each vessel concerned—

(1) The name of the vessel;

(2) The country of registry;

(3) One of the following statements as appropriate:

(i) This vessel complies with international safety standards, except the 1966 fire safety standards.

(ii) This vessel complies with international safety standards developed prior to 1960. There is (*or,* is not) an automatic sprinkler system fitted in the passenger living and public spaces. The hull, decks, deckhouses, structural bulkheads, and internal partitions are (*or,* are not) composed of combustible materials.

(iii) This vessel does not comply with any international safety standard. There is (*or,* is not) an automatic sprinkler system fitted in the passenger living and public spaces. The hull, decks, deckhouses, structural bulkheads, and internal partitions are (*or,* are not) composed of combustible materials.

(b) The information required in paragraph (a) of this section must be printed in a type no smaller than six points, American point system.

(c) The information required in paragraph (a) of this section must be headed—

(1) “SAFETY INFORMATION”;

(2) With each letter in the heading capitalized; and

(3) In boldfaced type of a size equal to the size of the text required in paragraph (a) of this section.

[CGD 72-187R, 38 FR 9081, Apr. 10, 1973, as amended by CGD 79-180, 48 FR 7456, Feb. 22, 1983]