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§ 135.127
that is audible to each passenger under
normal noise levels.
[Doc. No. 16097, 43 FR 46783, Oct. 10, 1978, as
amended by Amdt. 135–9, 51 FR 40709, Nov. 7,
1986; Amdt. 135–25, 53 FR 12362, Apr. 13, 1988;
Amdt. 135–44, 57 FR 42675, Sept. 15, 1992; 57
FR 43776, Sept. 22, 1992; 69 FR 39294, June 29,
2004; Amdt. 135–129, 79 FR 9973, Feb. 21, 2014]
§ 135.119 Prohibition against carriage
of weapons.
No person may, while on board an
aircraft being operated by a certificate
holder, carry on or about that person a
deadly or dangerous weapon, either
concealed or unconcealed. This section
does not apply to—
(a) Officials or employees of a mu-
nicipality or a State, or of the United
States, who are authorized to carry
arms; or
(b) Crewmembers and other persons
authorized by the certificate holder to
carry arms.
§ 135.120 Prohibition on interference
with crewmembers.
No person may assault, threaten, in-
timidate, or interfere with a crew-
member in the performance of the
crewmember’s duties aboard an air-
craft being operated under this part.
[Doc. No. FAA–1998–4954, 64 FR 1080, Jan. 7,
1999]
§ 135.121 Alcoholic beverages.
(a) No person may drink any alco-
holic beverage aboard an aircraft un-
less the certificate holder operating
the aircraft has served that beverage.
(b) No certificate holder may serve
any alcoholic beverage to any person
aboard its aircraft if that person ap-
pears to be intoxicated.
(c) No certificate holder may allow
any person to board any of its aircraft
if that person appears to be intoxi-
cated.
§ 135.122 Stowage of food, beverage,
and passenger service equipment
during aircraft movement on the
surface, takeoff, and landing.
(a) No certificate holder may move
an aircraft on the surface, take off, or
land when any food, beverage, or table-
ware furnished by the certificate hold-
er is located at any passenger seat.
(b) No certificate holder may move
an aircraft on the surface, take off, or
land unless each food and beverage
tray and seat back tray table is se-
cured in its stowed position.
(c) No certificate holder may permit
an aircraft to move on the surface,
take off, or land unless each passenger
serving cart is secured in its stowed po-
sition.
(d) Each passenger shall comply with
instructions given by a crewmember
with regard to compliance with this
section.
[Doc. No. 26142, 57 FR 42675, Sept. 15, 1992]
§ 135.123 Emergency and emergency
evacuation duties.
(a) Each certificate holder shall as-
sign to each required crewmember for
each type of aircraft as appropriate,
the necessary functions to be per-
formed in an emergency or in a situa-
tion requiring emergency evacuation.
The certificate holder shall ensure that
those functions can be practicably ac-
complished, and will meet any reason-
ably anticipated emergency including
incapacitation of individual crew-
members or their inability to reach the
passenger cabin because of shifting
cargo in combination cargo-passenger
aircraft.
(b) The certificate holder shall de-
scribe in the manual required under
§ 135.21 the functions of each category
of required crewmembers assigned
under paragraph (a) of this section.
§ 135.125 Aircraft security.
Certificate holders conducting opera-
tors conducting operations under this
part must comply with the applicable
security requirements in 49 CFR chap-
ter XII.
[67 FR 8350, Feb. 22, 2002]
§ 135.127 Passenger information re-
quirements and smoking prohibi-
tions.
(a) No person may conduct a sched-
uled flight on which smoking is prohib-
ited by part 252 of this title unless the
‘‘No Smoking’’ passenger information
signs are lighted during the entire
flight, or one or more ‘‘No Smoking’’
placards meeting the requirements of
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§ 135.128
§ 25.1541 of this chapter are posted dur-
ing the entire flight. If both the lighted
signs and the placards are used, the
signs must remain lighted during the
entire flight segment.
(b) No person may smoke while a ‘‘No
Smoking’’ sign is lighted or while ‘‘No
Smoking’’ placards are posted, except
as follows:
(1)
On-demand operations.
The pilot in
command of an aircraft engaged in an
on-demand operation may authorize
smoking on the flight deck (if it is
physically separated from any pas-
senger compartment), except in any of
the following situations:
(i) During aircraft movement on the
surface or during takeoff or landing;
(ii) During scheduled passenger-car-
rying public charter operations con-
ducted under part 380 of this title;
(iii) During on-demand operations
conducted interstate that meet para-
graph (2) of the definition ‘‘On-demand
operation’’ in § 110.2 of this chapter, un-
less permitted under paragraph (b)(2) of
this section; or
(iv) During any operation where
smoking is prohibited by part 252 of
this title or by international agree-
ment.
(2)
Certain intrastate commuter oper-
ations and certain intrastate on-demand
operations.
Except during aircraft
movement on the surface or during
takeoff or landing, a pilot in command
of an aircraft engaged in a commuter
operation or an on-demand operation
that meets paragraph (2) of the defini-
tion of ‘‘On-demand operation’’ in
§ 110.2 of this chapter may authorize
smoking on the flight deck (if it is
physically separated from the pas-
senger compartment, if any) if—
(i) Smoking on the flight deck is not
otherwise prohibited by part 252 of this
title;
(ii) The flight is conducted entirely
within the same State of the United
States (a flight from one place in Ha-
waii to another place in Hawaii
through the airspace over a place out-
side Hawaii is not entirely within the
same State); and
(iii) The aircraft is either not tur-
bojet-powered or the aircraft is not ca-
pable of carrying at least 30 passengers.
(c) No person may smoke in any air-
craft lavatory.
(d) No person may operate an aircraft
with a lavatory equipped with a smoke
detector unless there is in that lava-
tory a sign or placard which reads:
‘‘Federal law provides for a penalty of
up to $2,000 for tampering with the
smoke detector installed in this lava-
tory.’’
(e) No person may tamper with, dis-
able, or destroy any smoke detector in-
stalled in any aircraft lavatory.
(f) On flight segments other than
those described in paragraph (a) of this
section, the ‘‘No Smoking’’ sign re-
quired by § 135.177(a)(3) of this part
must be turned on during any move-
ment of the aircraft on the surface, for
each takeoff or landing, and at any
other time considered necessary by the
pilot in command.
(g) The passenger information re-
quirements prescribed in § 91.517 (b) and
(d) of this chapter are in addition to
the requirements prescribed in this sec-
tion.
(h) Each passenger shall comply with
instructions given him or her by crew-
members regarding compliance with
paragraphs (b), (c), and (e) of this sec-
tion.
[Doc. No. 25590, 55 FR 8367, Mar. 7, 1990, as
amended by Amdt. 135–35, 55 FR 20135, May
15, 1990; Amdt. 135–44, 57 FR 42675, Sept. 15,
1992; Amdt. 135–60, 61 FR 2616, Jan. 26, 1996;
Amdt. 135–76, 65 FR 36780, June 9, 2000; Amdt.
135–124, 76 FR 7491, Feb. 10, 2011]
§ 135.128 Use of safety belts and child
restraint systems.
(a) Except as provided in this para-
graph, each person on board an aircraft
operated under this part shall occupy
an approved seat or berth with a sepa-
rate safety belt properly secured about
him or her during movement on the
surface, takeoff, and landing. For sea-
plane and float equipped rotorcraft op-
erations during movement on the sur-
face, the person pushing off the sea-
plane or rotorcraft from the dock and
the person mooring the seaplane or
rotorcraft at the dock are excepted
from the preceding seating and safety
belt requirements. A safety belt pro-
vided for the occupant of a seat may
not be used by more than one person
who has reached his or her second
birthday. Notwithstanding the pre-
ceding requirements, a child may: