(a) The Daviess Circuit Court shall operate in two (2) divisions, Division I and Division II, and each shall have jurisdiction of both civil and criminal cases. The Circuit court shall also consist of a Master Commissioner and a Deputy Master Commissioner. Each division of the court also has a Domestic Relations Commissioner to which the court may assign matters for evidentiary hearings, findings of fact, conclusions of law and recommendations.

(b) All civil and criminal causes shall be divided between the two divisions as equally as possible and as hereinafter provided.

(c) Each judge may preside over, hear and determine any case or question in the other Division when so agreed between the judges, or when the judge of one Division is sick, absent from the county or otherwise not available.

(d) A judge of either Division may vary, discontinue or extend any trial period whenever the business of the Division requires. Each shall have the power to assign for trial all causes in the Division for such days as, in such judge's discretion, will conduce the convenient dispatch of the business of the Division.