Lights with batteries are acceptable according to the regs, but I think
there's a contradiction in the original question. My apologies for being
imprecise.

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"Dave" wrote in message
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On Wed, 27 Sep 2006 12:34:20 -0400, DSK said:

If the lifejackets are new in the package, then how could
the lights have batteries in them?

Er....what kind of batteries does a chemical luminescent light use?