(a) General rule.--If any temporary or definitive bond or note, including any tax anticipation note, lawfully issued under this subpart or under applicable law prior to July 12, 1972, becomes mutilated or is destroyed, stolen or lost, the local government unit shall execute, and any sinking fund depository, fiscal agent or trustee for bondholders shall, if required, authenticate and deliver a new bond or note, with appropriate coupons attached in the case of a bond or note in coupon form, of like series and principal amount as the bond or note and attached coupons, if any, so mutilated, destroyed, stolen or lost, upon surrender and cancellation of the mutilated bond or note and attached coupons, if any, or in lieu of and in substitution for the bond or note and coupons, if any, destroyed, stolen or lost.

(b) Procedure.--The local government unit shall proceed as required under subsection (a) upon filing with the local government unit or, if so provided in the bond ordinance, with the sinking fund depository, fiscal agent or trustee, evidence satisfactory to it that the bond or note and attached coupons, if any, have been destroyed, stolen or lost and proof of ownership thereof and upon furnishing of satisfactory indemnity and complying with such other reasonable regulations as the local government unit shall prescribe and paying any reasonable expenses, including counsel fees, as the local government unit or the sinking fund depository, fiscal agent or trustee may incur. Mutilated bonds or notes and appurtenant coupons, if any, surrendered shall be canceled.

(c) Status of replacement bonds and notes.--The new bonds or notes and coupons, if any, so issued shall be independent obligations and all limitations and debt limits shall be deemed increased to the extent necessary to validate the new bonds or notes and any appurtenant coupons.