and- a third member to be appointed by the governor. The decision of the board shall be final. Iowa Code §’ 679A.19 (emphasis added). The plain language of the statute limits its application to administrative departments, commissions, and boards of state government. See State ex rel. Iowa Dep’t of Health v. Van Wyk, 320 N.W.2d 599, 602 (Iowa 1982) (“Under section [679A.19], litigation is prohibited between administrative departments, commissions, or boards of state government.”). Under this statute, disputes that are fundamentally between executive branch departments must be resolved through arbitration; litigation in the courts is prohibited. Id. We have never applied this section to an entity that was not an administrative department, commission, or board of state government. See id. (<HOLDING>); Llewellyn, 200 N.W.2d at 884 (holding a
holding that claims against a broker under the securities laws and rico were subject to arbitration pursuant to a provision requiring the arbitration of any dispute relating to the customers accounts holding that the federal arbitration act requires piecemeal resolution when necessary to give effect to an arbitration agreement and mandates enforcement of an arbitration agreement notwithstanding the presence of other persons who are parties to the underlying dispute but not to the arbitration agreement emphasis added holding that the department of corrections was entitled to eleventh amendment immunity from suit under section 1981 holding that an atwill employee may bring a cause of action under section 1981 holding dispute between the board of chiropractic examiners and the iowa department of health required arbitration under section 67919 1981