§128-9  Emergency functions.  Thegovernor 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 theextent necessary to prevent hoarding, waste, or destruction of materials,supplies, commodities, accommodations, facilities, and services, to effectuateequitable distribution thereof, or to establish priorities therein as thepublic welfare may require, to investigate, and any other law to the contrarynotwithstanding, to regulate or prohibit, by means of licensing, rationing, orotherwise, the storage, transportation, use, possession, maintenance,furnishing, sale, or distribution thereof, and any business or any transactionrelated thereto.

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

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

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

(5)  Further provisions for greater productiveeffort.  To fix or revise the hours of government business, and to suspendsection 8-1, relating to state holidays, except the last paragraph which shallremain unaffected, and in the event of the suspension the governor mayestablish state holidays by proclamation.

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

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

(8)  Relief of hardships, inequities, etc.  To relievehardships and inequities, or obstructions to the public health, safety, orwelfare, found by the governor to exist in the laws and to result from theoperation of federal programs or measures taken under this chapter, bysuspending the laws, in whole or in part, or by alleviating the provisions oflaws on such terms and conditions as the governor may impose, including,without limitation, licensing laws, quarantine laws, and laws relating tolabels, 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]