§128-9  Emergency functions.  The
governor shall have the following further emergency functions and powers,
irrespective of the existence of a civil defense emergency period:



(1)  Prevention of hoarding, waste, etc.  To the
extent necessary to prevent hoarding, waste, or destruction of materials,
supplies, commodities, accommodations, facilities, and services, to effectuate
equitable distribution thereof, or to establish priorities therein as the
public welfare may require, to investigate, and any other law to the contrary
notwithstanding, to regulate or prohibit, by means of licensing, rationing, or
otherwise, the storage, transportation, use, possession, maintenance,
furnishing, sale, or distribution thereof, and any business or any transaction
related thereto.



(2)  Daylight saving time.  To provide for greater
productive effort by instituting daylight saving time.



(3)  Hours of business.  To suspend any law, or
provision having the force and effect of law, as to opening and closing hours
of business and substitute other hours.



(4)  Continuity of service.  To assure the continuity
of service by public utilities and other facilities, both publicly and
privately owned, by regulating or, if necessary to the continuation of the
service thereof, by taking over and operating the same.



(5)  Further provisions for greater productive
effort.  To fix or revise the hours of government business, and to suspend
section 8-1, relating to state holidays, except the last paragraph which shall
remain unaffected, and in the event of the suspension the governor may
establish state holidays by proclamation.



(6)  Election hours.  To adjust the hours for voting
to take into consideration the working hours of the voters during the national
emergency and other emergency conditions, and for the purpose to suspend those
provisions of section 11-131 which fix the hours for voting, and fix other
hours by stating the same in the election proclamation or notice, as the case
may be.



(7)  Furtherance of federal programs.  To further and
promote federal programs by making rules and regulations adopting and giving
the force and effect of state law to federal laws, rules, regulations, and
orders whenever the governor finds that the same serve the purposes of this
chapter, including, without limitation, federal price control and wage control
measures; and also to further and promote federal programs by suspending laws
that impede the same, by prescribing for any license, permit, registration, or
certificate, additional requirements that serve as a means of enforcing, or
checking on the enforcement, of a federal law, rule, regulation, or order, and
by transferring to the federal government at its request the state employment
service with its personnel, records, facilities, equipment, and supplies, and
making similar requested transfers of other services when the governor finds
that the most effective functioning of the services will result therefrom. 
Nothing in this subsection shall be deemed to be in limitation of any of the
powers conferred upon the governor by this chapter.



(8)  Relief of hardships, inequities, etc.  To relieve
hardships and inequities, or obstructions to the public health, safety, or
welfare, found by the governor to exist in the laws and to result from the
operation of federal programs or measures taken under this chapter, by
suspending the laws, in whole or in part, or by alleviating the provisions of
laws on such terms and conditions as the governor may impose, including,
without limitation, licensing laws, quarantine laws, and laws relating to
labels, grades, and standards. [L 1951, c 268, pt of §2; RL 1955, §359-9; HRS
§128-9; am L 1979, c 105, §11; gen ch 1985]