§8-3  Banking holidays.  Whenever in the
opinion of the governor, a public emergency exists, and it seems to the
governor to be in the public interest, the governor may by proclamation
designate and proclaim as legal banking holidays in the State such number of
consecutive days as in the governor's judgment the emergency may require.  The
governor may extend the same as the governor may deem advisable.  The
proclamation of bank holidays shall not relate to any business other than that
of banking and kindred operations, nor as prohibiting, perforce, any voluntary
conduct of banking business, in whole or in part, except to the extent declared
in the proclamation or in any further proclamation in enlargement or
modification thereof. [L 1933, c 3, §1; RL 1935, pt of §21; am L 1941, c 132,
pt of §1; RL 1955, pt of §1-43; am L 1961, c 116, pt of §1; HRS §8-3; gen ch
1985]