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.
Ovett is an unincorporated community in southeastern Jones County, Mississippi, United States. It is located just west of the De Soto National Forest and Highway 15. Although it is unincorporated, the community has a post office, with the ZIP code of 39464. Ovett is part of the Laurel Micropolitan Statistical Area.