§445-23 Hours for auctions. No auction sale of goods, wares, and merchandise shall be conducted between the hours of 9:00 o'clock in the evening and 8:00 o'clock in the morning, and no such auction of any nature or description shall be conducted during the months of November and December of any year; provided that this section shall not apply to:
(1) Sales of household furniture, vehicles, automobiles, machinery, livestock, and like bulky articles;
(2) Any sale made under the direction of any court;
(3) Sales of any personal property belonging to the State or any county;
(4) A bona fide sale of a stock of merchandise, where the creditors of the owner thereof are engaged in the legitimate closing out of the stock;
(5) Sales by hawkers on the street or peddlers from vehicles;
(6) Sales by persons selling fruits, fish, seafood products, vegetables, butter, eggs, or other farm or ranch produce; or
(7) Auctions held in public auction rooms that have been established for six months or more. [L 1925, c 195, pt of §1; am L 1933, c 145, §1; RL 1935, §2419; RL 1945, §7020; RL 1955, §155-20; am L 1965, c 183, §1; HRS §445-23; am L 1993, c 272, §2]