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Starting July 1, 2027, this bill requires small unincorporated islands — meaning privately held pockets of land, 55 acres or smaller, that are completely surrounded by a single city or town in a second-class county (currently Weber County) — to be automatically annexed into the municipality that surrounds them, as long as the surrounding city provides water or sewer service to the area, or the area has no public infrastructure, or its infrastructure already meets the city's standards. The county must notify affected property owners by May 1, 2027, including a description of the area, the annexation date, and information about the municipality taking over. Local governments can opt out by passing a resolution before that same deadline. The bill also removes outdated conditions that previously limited when a council-manager county could delegate its accounting functions to the county manager or a department head.