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.
Lebanon, Georgia is a community that is now absorbed into Holly Springs. While the community is locally known and still referred to as Toonigh, the community has a post office located in a small strip mall just south of the Georgia Northeastern Railroad that was posted as Lebanon, Georgia. As of May 2008, a Home Depot opened for business just north of the community, Located just off the 575 - Sixes road exit, the community is naturally a good spot for business to flourish. The area is definitely growing with many new apartment complexes, three gas stations off the exit, And even an outlet mall planned for 2009, all within 1 mile of the heart of Lebanon, Ga.