Public utilities provide electric, gas, water or telephone service to customers in a specified area. Utilities have a duty to provide safe and adequate service on reasonable terms to anyone who lives within the service area on without discriminating between customers. Because most utilities operate in near monopolistic conditions, they can be heavily regulated by local, state, and federal authorities. Generally, the local and state agencies are called Public Service Commissions (PSC) or Public Utility Commissions (PUC). Municipal Utilities and Rural Electric Cooperatives may be unregulated though.
Pindall is a town in Searcy County, Arkansas, United States. The population was 95 at the 2000 census. The town is said to be named for Governor Xenophon Overton Pindall. Pindall is the birthplace of country music icon Willie Nelson before moving to Texas with his family when he was 6 years old.