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exists for more than a week in any river, creek, stream or swamp, so as to obstruct the free passage of boats, canoes or other floating vessels or fish in such waters. Whenever any vessel, barge, scow or other craft is wrecked or sunk in any of the waters in the City, accidentally or otherwise, the owner of such vessel, barge, scowl or other craft shall immediately mark it with a buoy and a lighted lantern at night, and maintain such markers until such sunken craft shall have been removed, and it shall be the responsibility of such person to immediately remove the same and to prosecute such removal with diligence. The neglect or failure of the owner to so make and to remove the craft shall be unlawful. Each day such craft or object remains abandoned and unmarked shall constitute a separate violation of this section. Section 23-507.1. Removal or repair of hazardous or obstructing docks, wharves, piers, pilings, bulkheads or other structures or vessels. (a) Whenever the Director of Planning, EngineerIng and Inspections shall be of the opinion that any~'dock, wharf, pier, piling, bulkhead or other structure or vessel might endanger the public health or safety of persons, or might constitute a hazard or obstruction to the lawful use of the waters within or adjoining the City, he shall cause a written notice to be served upon the owner of s~ch dock, wharf, pier, piling, bulkhead or other structure or vessel or the land upon.which,same is situated, directing the owner to remove, repair or secure such ~uroperty within the time to be specified within such notice. Any such owner who shall fail to remove, repair or secure such property within the time specified in such notice shall be guilty of a Class I misdemeanor. (b) If the owner fails to remove, repair or secure such dock, wharf, pier, piling, bulkhead or other structure or vessel within the time specified in the notice given pursuant pursuant to this section, the Director of Planning, Engineering and Inspections or his agent may remove, repair or secure such property at the expense of the owner, and the expense shall be chargeable to and paid by the owner of such property. Such expense shall be a lien upon such property or upon any parcel of land of which it is a part or to which it is affixed or from which it was removed, until paid, and shall be reported by the Director of Planning, Engineering and Inspections to the City Treasurer, who shall collect the same in the manner in which City taxes levied upon the real estate are authorized to be collected. Such lien shall be ~ecorded in the Judgement Lien Docket Book in th~ Circuit Court of the City and may reduced to a personal judgement against the owner.