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.
Yukon is an unincorporated community in eastern Texas County, Missouri, United States. It is located at the junction of Route 17 and Route 137 about nine miles east of Houston. The community was founded in 1900 and is named after the Gold rush in the Yukon that occurred in 1898-1899. Its post office is closed, and mail now comes from nearby Houston.