The board of public works and safety may institute a suit for injunction in the circuit or superior court of the county to restrain any person who shall take down, alter, deface, destroy or conceal any number assigned to or placed upon any building, or who shall place or substitute or permit to be placed or substituted an erroneous or improper number upon any building, or who shall allow an erroneous or improper number upon any building, or who shall allow an erroneous or improper number to be retained upon any building. Such board may institute a suit for mandatory injunction directing a person to correct a building number in violation of the sections of this chapter, or to make the same comply with its terms. If such board is successful in its suit, the respondent shall bear the costs of the action including reasonable attorney's fees. (Prior code § 27-14)