Any applicant may deposit with the commissioner, in lieu of a bond required by this chapter, securities of the kind and character set forth in sections 1170 to 1175, and 1179 to 1240, in a sum not less than the required amount of the penal sum of said bond. Such securities shall be held in trust by the commissioner for the fulfillment of the same terms and conditions as in the case of a bond required by section 1802.5.
(Added by Stats. 1939, Ch. 361.)