License to expire ninety days after issuance or on termination date in application. Special deposit to be used to satisfy claims against licensee. Return of license. Lost licenses.

(b) Whenever any state license, issued under the provisions of section 21-35b has been lost or destroyed, so that such license cannot, after the expiration of the term thereof, be returned or surrendered under the provisions of subsection (a) of this section, the licensee may file an affidavit with the Commissioner of Consumer Protection describing such license with sufficient particularity to identify the same and the claimant thereunder, and showing such loss or destruction; and the commissioner, upon such proof of loss and identity as is satisfactory to him, may accept such affidavit in lieu of the return or surrender of such license, and such licensee shall have the same right to the return of the special deposit made by him as though he had returned or surrendered his license.