Sec. 3-23a. Replacement of mutilated, destroyed, stolen or lost state obligations.
Sec. 3-23a. Replacement of mutilated, destroyed, stolen or lost state obligations. If any obligation of the state, which shall include bonds, notes, coupons or other
evidence of state indebtedness, becomes mutilated, defaced, destroyed, stolen or lost,
the State Treasurer may cause to be executed and delivered to the owner or his authorized
attorney or agent a new obligation of like tenor, amount, date, interest rate and maturity
as the obligation so mutilated, defaced, destroyed, stolen or lost, in exchange and substitution for such mutilated or defaced obligation, or in lieu of and substitution for the
obligation destroyed, stolen or lost upon the filing with said Treasurer of proof of ownership, and proof of theft or destruction or loss satisfactory to said Treasurer, and upon
the furnishing said Treasurer with indemnity or surety satisfactory to him and compliance with such other reasonable regulations as said Treasurer may prescribe and payment
of such expenses as the state and the Treasurer may incur in connection therewith. The
Treasurer shall cancel all obligations surrendered in accordance with section 3-23. The
new obligations shall be signed in the name of the state by such officials as are in office
at the time of the issuance or the authorization thereof, and new coupons, if any, shall
be authenticated by the signature or facsimile signature of the Treasurer or by such
former Treasurer as the Treasurer may designate. Such obligations may be issued notwithstanding that any of the officials signing them or whose facsimile signatures appear
on the obligations or coupons has ceased to hold office at the time of such issue or at
the time of delivery of such obligations. The Treasurer shall report the number and
amount of all obligations so issued in his annual report.
(1971, P.A. 701, S. 1.)