If sidewalks, curbings or gutters are not constructed or repaired within fifteen days from the service of the notice provided for in Section 903.02, or the completion of the publication thereof, the Director of Public Service may proceed by direct employment of labor or by contract, to carry out the construction or repair at the expense of the owner, as in the case of other improvements, and all expenses shall be reported by the City Manager to Council. Council shall thereupon, by ordinance, assess the cost and expense thereof upon the owner, or owners of all the property bounding and abutting thereon, and all assessments shall be collected in the same manner as other assessments, with a penalty of five percent (5%) and interest for failure to pay at the time fixed by the assessment resolution. This remedy shall be in addition to a prosecution under Section 903.99.
(1987 Code 53.32)