Section 17-149. On what expenses to be a lien

The expenses attending the
  execution of any and all  orders  duly  made  by  the  department  shall
  respectively  be a several and joint personal charge against each of the
  owners or part owners and each of  the  lessees  and  occupants  of  the
  building, business, place, property, matter or thing to which such order
  relates,  and  in respect to which such expenses were incurred; and also
  against every person or body who was by law or contract bound to do that
  in regard to such business, place, street,  property,  matter  or  thing
  which  such  order  requires.  Such expenses shall also be a lien on all
  rent and compensation due, or to grow due, for the  use  of  any  place,
  room,  building,  premises, matter or thing to which such order relates,
  and in respect of which such expenses were incurred, and also a lien  on
  all  compensation  due,  or to grow due, for the cleaning of any street,
  place, ground, or thing, or for the cleaning, or removal, of any matter,
  thing, or place, the failure to do which by the party bound so to do, or
  doing of the same in whole or in part by order of such  department,  was
  the cause or occasion of any such order or expense.