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.
Bombay is a town in Franklin County, New York, United States. The population was 1,192 at the 2000 census. The town was named after Bombay in India by an early landowner, whose wife was from Bombay. The Town of Bombay is in the northwest part of the county, south of Canada-United States border.