The Board of Health shall have the power to abate and remove all nuisances within the City and to assess the costs of the same upon the property where such nuisances are situated which assessment, when duly certified by the President of the Board to the County Auditor, shall become a lien to be collected the same as any other tax in favor of the City. The Board shall have the power to compel the proprietors or owners, agents or assignees, occupants or tenants of the lot or property, house or building upon or in which any such nuisance may be, to abate and remove the same.
(1964 Code § 211.24)