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.
Monrovia is a town in Monroe Township, Morgan County, Indiana, United States. The population was 628 at the 2000 census. It is the home of Indy Racing League driver Gary Bettenhausen, as well as Detroit Lions Wide Receiver John Standeford and award-winning basketball coach Branch McCracken. In 2006, the Monrovia High School Band won the Mid-States Band Association Class A Championships at Kings Mill, OH. The school won a state championship in Academic Super Bowl Competition in 1988.