If any owner or occupant of any building within the city shall fail or refuse to number his or her building within the time herein provided, then it shall be the duty of the Mayor of the city to have the building numbered and the number thereof placed conspicuously in the front thereof, and report the costs of the same in all such instances to the City Clerk, who shall certify the costs as a tax upon the lot occupied by the building, to the County Clerk, to be placed upon the tax roll of the county and collected according to law. Nothing in this section shall preclude the Mayor and City Council from withholding the certification of such costs to the County Clerk, and at the time of general tax levy, making other provisions for the payment of such costs so reported by the Mayor of the city.
(Prior Code, § 40-50)