The total cost, whether such costs are incurred due to the use of employees, materials and equipment of the City or by contract for labor, materials and equipment, or both, of removing insecure, unsafe or structurally defective buildings or other structures, including the costs of service of publication or notice, together with a proper description of the premises, shall be certified by the Clerk of Council to the County Auditor and by him placed upon the tax duplicate. Such costs shall be a lien upon such lands from and after the date of entry and shall be collected as other taxes. (Ord. 1973-24. Passed 5-14-73.)