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.
Guysville is an unincorporated community in southern Rome Township, Athens County, Ohio, United States. Although it is unincorporated, it has a post office, with the ZIP code of 45735. The town is located on the Hocking River at the junction of U.S. Route 50 and State Route 329. Guysville was originally named Savannah, and the town park and one street still bear that name.