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.
Boise City is a city in and the county seat of Cimarron County, Oklahoma, United States. The population was 1,483 at the 2000 census. 'Boise' is pronounced to rhyme with 'voice' (as opposed to "boy-see", like the city in Idaho). The actress Vera Miles was born in Boise City in 1929.