There shall be nineteen circuit judges in the sixteenth judicial circuit consisting of the county of Jackson. These judges shall sit in nineteen divisions. Divisions one, three, four, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen and eighteen shall sit at the city of Kansas City and divisions two, five, sixteen and seventeen shall sit at the city of Independence. Division nineteen shall sit at both the city of Kansas City and the city of Independence. Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions, the judge of the probate division shall sit at both the city of Kansas City and the city of Independence.

(1949 S.B. 1140, A.L. 1953 p. 394, A.L. 1959 S.B. 96, A.L. 1965 p. 643, A.L. 1969 p. 557, A.L. 1977 S.B. 252, A.L. 1978 H.B. 1634, A.L. 1996 S.B. 869)