# Customer Meters and Regulators: Installation [49 CFR 192.357]

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- **citation:** LAC 43:XIII §1907
- **title:** Customer Meters and Regulators: Installation [49 CFR 192.357]
- **source type:** regulation
- **agency:** Louisiana Office of Conservation
- **status:** current
- **official:** true
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- **summary:** A. Each meter and each regulator must be installed so as to minimize anticipated stresses upon the connecting piping and the meter. [49 CFR 192.357(a)] B. When close all-thread nipples are used, the wall thickness remaining after the threads are cut must meet the minimum wall thickness requirements 
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A. Each meter and each regulator must be installed so as to minimize anticipated stresses upon the connecting piping and the meter. [49 CFR 192.357(a)]

B. When close all-thread nipples are used, the wall thickness remaining after the threads are cut must meet the minimum wall thickness requirements of this Subpart. [49 CFR 192.357(b)]

C. Connections made of lead or other easily damaged material may not be used in the installation of meters or regulators. [49 CFR 192.357(c)]

D. Each regulator that might release gas in its operation must be vented to the outside atmosphere. [49 CFR 192.357(d)]

AUTHORITY NOTE: Promulgated in accordance with R.S. 30:501 et seq.

HISTORICAL NOTE: Promulgated by the Department of Natural Resources, Office of Conservation, LR 9:234 (April 1983), amended LR 10:526 (July 1984), LR 30:1248 (June 2004).
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