Section 2567. Protection of rights exercised under licenses issued by a board of education in a city having a population of one million or more

No person shall forfeit any right given to him under a license issued by
  a board of education in a city having a population  of  one  million  or
  more,  pursuant  to this chapter, because of absence while in service in
  the armed forces of the United States or in the service of the  American
  Red  Cross.  Any  person  may  at  any  time within six months after his
  discharge from service in the armed forces of the United States  or  the
  American  Red Cross make application to the license issuing authority by
  affidavit setting forth that he or she has been in service in the  armed
  forces  of  the United States or the American Red Cross during world war
  II and has been discharged from such service and  that  he  desires  the
  license  theretofore  issued  to  him or to her to be reissued as of the
  date of such application, and it shall be  the  duty  of  the  licensing
  authority  to reinstate such license as of the date on which application
  is made.