480.16 DISTRIBUTION OF WORK OF COURTS; DUTY OF JUDGES TO COMPLY
WITH CHIEF JUSTICE'S DIRECTION.
The chief justice shall consider all recommendations of the court administrator for the
assignment of judges, and has discretionary authority to direct any judge whose calendar, in the
judgment of the chief justice, will permit, to hold court in any county or district where need
therefor exists, to the end that the courts of this state shall function with maximum efficiency,
and that the work of other courts shall be equitably distributed. The Supreme Court may provide
by rule for the enforcement of this section and section
480.17.
History: 1963 c 758 s 4; 1971 c 81 s 2; 1986 c 444