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.
Kerhonkson is a hamlet in Ulster County, New York, United States. The population was 1,732 at the 2000 census. Kerhonkson is a community located in the Town of Wawarsing just south of the town's boundary with the Town of Rochester on US 209, and just north of where US 44 ends and NY 55 joins 209 south. Soyuzivka, a Ukrainian resort and cultural center is located here.