If any owner, or agent of the owner of any house, store, shop or factory shall neglect or refuse to place the proper number upon or over the door of any house, building, store, shop or factory, so owned within the corporate limits of the Village for the term of sixty days from the effective date of this chapter, it shall then be the duty of the Village Clerk to place, or have placed the proper number thereon at the expense of the owner, and on refusal of said owner or agent to pay for the same, the costs and expense thereof shall be assessed against the property, and the same shall be a lien upon the land or lot on which the structure so required to be numbered stands, and to be returned to the County Auditor to be placed upon the tax duplicate, and collected as other taxes by the County Treasurer.
(Ord. 15-45. Passed 11-20-45.)