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506.110 , or any other law to the contrary notwithstanding, any action or court proceeding may be instituted in the sixteenth judicial circuit by filing the necessary papers and subsequent papers in the office of the court administrator in either Independence or Kansas City, and such filing shall not be subject to dismissal for improper venue or jurisdiction solely upon the grounds that the cause was filed in the improper portion of the circuit.  The judge before whom the cause is pending shall, upon challenge of improper venue or of improper jurisdiction pursuant to section