(a) The director shall, by regulation, establish methods and procedures for the settlement of a dispute between a lien claimant supplying agricultural chemicals and labor and a lien debtor, including, but not limited to, the following:
(1) Time requirements for submitting the dispute to the department.
(2) Time requirements within which a notice of the dispute shall be submitted to each party.
(3) A process for evaluating the dispute.
(b) Each party to the dispute is equally liable for the reasonable costs incurred by the department in carrying out this section.
(Added by Stats. 1990, Ch. 1502, Sec. 2.)