No person shall obstruct or cause to be obstructed, in any way whatsoever, the drainage ditches of any street, avenue, road or alley or other public place so as to prevent the free passage of water along the same. When it is found that any such drainage ditch is obstructed so as to interfere with the drainage of water, then the obstruction shall be immediately removed or altered as the case may be by the person obstructing the same; and unless the same is so removed or altered as the case may require, then the Municipality shall remove or alter the same and the cost thereof shall be charged to the owner abutting thereon.