The purpose of this chapter is to protect the health, safety, morals and welfare of the citizens of the Borough by causing the removal of abandoned, illegally parked, stored, wrecked, junked and stripped automobiles from highways and from both public and private property and to abate public nuisances caused by the storage of, parking of and accumulation of such automobiles which are detrimental to the health, safety, morals and welfare of the citizens of the Borough and which constitute a peril to highway and traffic safety.