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.
Byhalia is a town in Marshall County, Mississippi, United States. The population was 706 as of the 2000 census. The original field recording of Sea Lion Woman or See Line Woman was recorded by Herbert Halpert on May 13, 1939 in Byhalia, as sung by Katherine and Christine Shipp.