2006 New York Code - Night Auctions.

 
    §  20-283  Night  auctions. a. The sale by public auction of all goods
  except as set forth in  subdivision  b  hereof  shall  be  made  in  the
  daytime,  between  eight o'clock in the morning and eight o'clock in the
  evening.
    b. Any sale by auction of the following goods after eight  o'clock  in
  the  evening  shall  be conducted pursuant to a special permit issued by
  the commissioner, in his or her  discretion  and  upon  such  reasonable
  conditions as he or she shall prescribe:
    1. Books and prints;
    2.  Goods  sold  in  the original package, as imported, according to a
  printed catalogue, of which samples shall have been opened  and  exposed
  to public inspection at least one day previous to the sale;
    3. Horses and live stock;
    4. Fruit and other farm products;
    5.  Paintings,  statuary, bronzes and other works of art and specimens
  of natural history, which shall have been on public  exhibition  in  the
  city  for  at  least  one  day  immediately  preceding the time of sale,
  provided that public notice of the time and  place  of  such  exhibition
  shall  have been given by advertisement for at least one day immediately
  preceding the day of such exhibition, in one or more of  the  designated
  daily newspapers printed in the city.
    c.  The commissioner from time to time, by a notice to be filed in his
  or her office and printed for five consecutive days in the City  Record,
  shall  designate  the  newspapers  in  which  such advertisements may be
  printed, and the commissioner, at any time, by a like notice may  revoke
  the designation of any such newspaper.