Bonds and notes as legal investments

§ 2046-m. Bonds and notes as legal investments. The bonds and notes are hereby made securities in which all public officers and bodies of this state and all municipalities, all insurance companies and associations and other persons carrying on an insurance business, all banks, bankers, trust companies, savings banks and savings associations, including savings and loan associations, building and loan associations, investment companies, trusts, estates, or guardianships under the control of individual administrators, guardians, executors, trustees and other individual fiduciaries, and other persons carrying on a banking business, and all other persons whatsoever, who are now or may hereafter be authorized to invest in bonds or notes or other obligations of the state, may properly and legally invest funds including capital in their control or belonging to them. The bonds or notes are also hereby made securities which may be deposited with and may be received by all public officers and bodies of this state and all municipalities for any purpose for which the deposit of bonds or notes or other obligations of this state is now or may hereafter be authorized.