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.
Summitville is a hamlet in the town of Mamakating, New York in Sullivan County, New York, United States. The postal ZIP code is 12781; the telephone exchange is predominantly 888 and overlayed 647 in Area code 845. The hamlet is located along U.S. Route 209.