Food and Agricultural Code § 57564.5

(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.