§47-44  Issuance of transferablecertificate.  If a lost, stolen, destroyed, wholly or in part, or defacedbond, coupon or both, as the case may be, will mature, will be called forredemption or will become due, as the case may be, within a period of one yearfrom the date of request for replacement, the director of finance may issue tothe claimant a transferable certificate for the face value of the bond, couponor both, as the case may be, such certificate to be in such form as shall beprescribed by the director of finance. [L 1989, c 80, pt of §2]