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.
Mantoloking is a Borough in Ocean County, New Jersey, United States. As of the United States 2000 Census, the borough had a total population of 423. Mantoloking is the wealthiest community in the state of New Jersey and is ranked as the 15th highest-income place in the United States. Mantoloking was incorporated as a borough by an Act of the New Jersey Legislature on April 10, 1911, from portions of Brick Township. Mantoloking is a Jersey Shore community situated on the Barnegat Peninsula, a long, narrow barrier peninsula that separates Barnegat Bay from the Atlantic Ocean. Mantoloking is home to the Olympic-champion producing Mantoloking Yacht Club. Mantoloking is home to many homes of the Shingle Style and seashore colonial designs with cedar shakes and white trim; popular in places like Cape Cod, Nantucket, Martha's Vineyard and Newport. Together with Bay Head to the north, Mantoloking is considered part of the Jersey Shore's "Gold Coast".