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.
Myra is an unincorporated community in western Cooke County, Texas, United States. It lies just off U.S. Route 82 west of the city of Gainesville, the county seat of Cooke County. Its elevation is 935 feet (285 m). Although it is unincorporated, it has a post office, with the ZIP code of 76253.