1.
The inhabitants of the territory comprised within the present limits of the Town of Elkton, as such limits are now or may hereafter be altered and established by law, shall constitute and continue to be a body politic and corporate, to be known and designated as the Town of Elkton ("the town"), and as such shall have perpetual succession, may sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, contract and be contracted with, and may have a corporate seal which it may alter, renew, or amend at its pleasure by proper ordinance.
[Amended by Ch. 135, Acts of Assembly, 2020, approved 3-4-2020]
The boundaries of the Town until altered shall be as follows:
a. 
All that area which constituted the Town of Elkton, Virginia, prior to January 1, 2004, which is more particularly described by metes and bounds as set out and recorded in the Clerk's Office of the Circuit Court of Rockingham County, Virginia, as Instrument Number 04035858 at Deed Book 2573, page 216;
b. 
All that area annexed on January 1, 2004, which is identified in the Ordinance recorded in the Clerk's Office of the Circuit Court of Rockingham County, Virginia, at Deed Book 2415, page 117, dated December 22, 2003; and
c. 
All that area annexed on January 1, 2005, which is identified in the Ordinance recorded in the Clerk's Office of the Circuit Court of Rockingham County, Virginia, at Deed Book 2602, page 105, dated December 28, 2004.
d. 
All that area which is identified in an Order of the Joint Petition of the County of Rockingham, Virginia, and the Town of Elkton, Virginia, recorded in the Clerk's Office of the Circuit Court of Rockingham County, Virginia, in Deed Book 2874, page 686, dated June 5, 2006.
e. 
All that area which is identified in an Order of the Joint Petition of the County of Rockingham, Virginia, and the Town of Elkton, Virginia, recorded in the Clerk's Office of the Circuit Court of Rockingham County, Virginia, in Deed Book 4258, page 24, dated June 14, 2013.
f. 
All that area which is identified in an Order of the Joint Petition of the County of Rockingham, Virginia, and the Town of Elkton, Virginia, recorded in the Clerk's Office of the Circuit Court of Rockingham County, Virginia, in Deed Book 4820, page 129, dated November 23, 2016.