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.
Hillview is a city in Bullitt County, Kentucky, United States. The population was 7,037 at the 2000 census. The primary road through the area is Kentucky Route 61 (Preston Highway). Long a rural farming community, it was connected to what became Interstate 65 in 1954 grew in the 1950s and especially 1960s as a suburb of Louisville. The larger subdivisions included Maryville, Overdale, and Lone Acres, and they incorporated in 1974 to form Hillview.