(a) An applicant to the comptroller for replacement under this subchapter of a bond that is damaged, destroyed, lost, or stolen and that, as described in the application, does not appear in the comptroller's records in the form and bear the identity originally registered by the comptroller must provide to the comptroller a chronology of the changes from the original, registered form and identity.
(b) The chronology must enable the comptroller, under the comptroller's rules, to trace the changes in form and identity of the bond to the original, registered form and identity.