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.
Boggstown is an unincorporated town in Sugar Creek Township, Shelby County, Indiana. The population has varied between 350 and 500 persons in recent years. During the American Civil War, the town and the surrounding township seceded from the Union. Actress Marjorie Main best known as Ma Kettle spent her teenage years here growing up on the first road north of town (300 North)