The municipal court may classify, arrange, distribute and assign the business thereof
and the causes instituted therein among the several judges thereof, in such manner
and at such time as the majority of such judges may from time to time prescribe by
rules or orders; except that the ninth division shall be assigned exclusively cases
arising under ordinances of the city concerning residential and nonresidential property
maintenance, nuisances, zoning, land use, fire prevention and protection, buildings
and building regulations, hazardous or toxic substances, unlawful activities of landlords
and tenants of residential premises, regulation of animals, and other matters designated
from time to time by ordinance. Each of the judges shall, at regular sessions in division,
attend to such business as may under such rules or orders be assigned to such division.
The court en banc may, by general rules, further provide for the hearing of certain
motions and applications for relief, or other special proceedings and matters as may
from time to time come before the court, and for the assignment for trial, the reassignment
and transfer of cases from one division to another of the court by the sole action
of either the presiding judge or other judges of the court if designated by the court
en banc.
