13.15  Rules and forms--fees.

The farm mediation service shall recommend rules to the farm assistance program coordinator. The coordinator shall adopt rules pursuant to chapter 17A to set the compensation of mediators and to implement this subchapter and chapters 654A, 654B, and 654C.

The rules shall provide for an hourly mediation fee not to exceed fifty dollars for the borrower and one hundred dollars for the creditor. The hourly mediation fee may be waived for any party demonstrating financial hardship upon application to the farm mediation service.

The compensation of a mediator shall be no more than twenty-five dollars per hour, and all parties shall contribute an equal amount of the cost.

The coordinator shall adopt voluntary mediation application and mediation request forms.

Section History: Recent form

  90 Acts, ch 1143, §5; 91 Acts, ch 267, §410; 95 Acts, ch 195, § 2


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