(A) Whenever the city, through its officers and employees, shall, pursuant to § 151.04, number any house or building on failure of the owner or his agent to comply with the notice as provided in § 151.03, the officer or employee performing such numbering or procuring the same to be done shall make out and file with the Clerk-Treasurer a certified itemized bill of such work and expense describing the premises upon and on account of which the work was done and the expense incurred, giving the date of such work and the name of the owner of the premises, which bill shall be retained by the Clerk-Treasurer.
(B) The Clerk-Treasurer shall at once notify the owner of such premises, or his agent, by mailing to his post office address a sealed written or printed notice stating the amount of such bill, and on what account the same was incurred and demanding payment, which notice shall be a demand for payment within ten days from the date of mailing such notice.
(C) In case the amount of such bill is not paid within such ten days from the date of mailing the notice, the expense shall become and the same is made a lien on the property described in the bill and Clerk-Treasurer shall place the amount of such bill on the tax duplicate against that property, indicating in the entry the date and account on which the expense shall have been incurred and that amount may be collected as delinquent taxes are collected or that lien may be foreclosed, or the city may bring suit for the amount of such bill in any court of competent jurisdiction against the owner of the premises and collect the same together with all costs and, on payment or collection of any such bill, together with all costs, such lien shall be satisfied and discharged and shall be so entered of record.
('76 Code, § 22-47) (Ord. passed 5-12-11)