Legal basis: Regulations on Expropriation and Compensation of Houses on State-owned Land Article 4 The municipal and county people's governments shall be responsible for the expropriation and compensation of houses within their respective administrative areas. The house expropriation departments determined by the people's governments at the city and county levels (hereinafter referred to as the house expropriation departments) shall organize the implementation of the house expropriation and compensation work within their respective administrative areas. The relevant departments of the people's governments at the city and county levels shall, in accordance with the provisions of these regulations and the division of responsibilities stipulated by the people's governments at the corresponding levels, cooperate with each other to ensure the smooth progress of the house expropriation and compensation work.