{"data":{"id":"us-ia/iowa-code-679c.102","jurisdiction":"us-ia","citation":"Iowa Code § 679C.102","heading":"Definitions.","body":"As used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires:\n1. “Mediation” means a process in which a mediator facilitates communication and negotiation between parties to assist them in reaching a voluntary agreement regarding their dispute.\n2. “Mediation communication” means a statement, whether oral or in a record, verbal or nonverbal, that occurs during a mediation or is made for purposes of considering, conducting, participating in, initiating, continuing, or reconvening a mediation or retaining a mediator.\n3. “Mediation party” means an individual who participates in a mediation and whose agreement is necessary to resolve the dispute.\n4. “Mediator” means an individual who conducts a mediation.\n5. “Nonparty participant” means a person, other than a mediation party or mediator, that participates in a mediation.\n6. “Person” means an individual; corporation; business trust; estate; trust; partnership; limited liability company; association; joint venture; government; governmental subdivision, agency, or instrumentality; public corporation; or any other legal or commercial entity.\n7. “Proceeding” means any of the following:\na. A judicial, administrative, arbitral, or other adjudicative process, including related prehearing and posthearing motions, conferences, and discovery.\nb. A legislative hearing or similar process.\n8. “Record” means information that is inscribed on a tangible medium or that is stored in an electronic or other medium and is retrievable in perceivable form.\n9. “Sign” means any of the following:\na. To execute or adopt a tangible symbol with the present intent to authenticate a record.\nb. To attach or logically associate an electronic symbol, sound, or process to or with a record with the present intent to authenticate a record.","path":["Title XV - JUDICIAL BRANCH AND JUDICIAL PROCEDURES (Ch. 595 - 686D)","Chapter 679C - MEDIATION"],"source_url":"https://www.legis.iowa.gov/docs/code/2026/679C.102.pdf","current_through":"Iowa Code 2026 edition","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-14T19:40:17Z","sha256":"856d19ac19ab96b15a8b0a4fda64ec06a60cddba8f12e6ce8b3dace716fe83cd","source_id":"us-ia","stale":false,"prev":"us-ia/iowa-code-679c.101","next":"us-ia/iowa-code-679c.103"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}