Section 17-153. Statement of expenses of executing orders

a. When the
  department shall have executed, or so far executed as the department may
  require, any order, a certificate setting forth  the  expenses  of  such
  execution, itemized generally, and the date thereof shall be filed among
  the  records  of  the  department  with  the  order so executed; and the
  department shall take care  by,  or  through  some  proper  officer,  or
  otherwise,  that  the  expenses  of  such  execution  be  so stated with
  fairness and accuracy.
    b. When it shall appear that such execution or the  expenses  thereof,
  related  to  several  lots  or buildings belonging to different persons,
  such certificate shall state what belongs to, or  arose  in  respect  to
  each  lot  of  such  several lots or buildings, as the department or its
  authorized officer  may  direct;  and  the  department  may  revise  the
  correctness  of  such apportionment of expenses as truth and justice may
  require.
    c. Whenever the expenses attending the execution of any order  of  the
  department  may be made the subject of a suit by it, there may be joined
  in the same suit a claim or claims for  any  penalty  or  penalties  for
  violation  of any health provisions, or for the violation or omission to
  perform or obey such order, or any prior order of the department, or for
  the not doing of that, or any portion of that, for the  doing  of  which
  such  expenses  arose  or were incurred; and the proper joint or several
  judgment may be had against one or more of the defendants in  the  suit,
  as  they or either of them may be liable in respect of both such claims,
  or either or any of them.