To assist in maintaining the general sanitation of the city, it shall be the duty of every person occupying or having control of the occupancy of any premises located on a regularly established garbage and refuse route to notify the city clerk at the beginning of such occupancy or on the effective date hereof and request, accept and use garbage and refuse pick up and collection service. The failure of any owner, rental agent or occupant of such premises to make such request shall not prevent nor in any way impair or impede the city from adding the address of such premises to the proper garbage and refuse collection route records and providing such service and otherwise enforcing by appropriate action the regulatory measures herein prescribed and causing the fees or charges therefor to be paid. (1988 Code § 17-219)