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.
Fair Play is an unincorporated community in southern Oconee County, South Carolina, United States, a few miles north of Lake Hartwell. Although it is unincorporated, it has a post office, with the ZIP Code of 29643. The population of the ZCTA for ZIP Code 29643 was 2,386 at the 2000 census. The community is also located close to Interstate 85.