(1) The Circuit Court clerk salary account is created as a trust and agency account in the State Treasury to be administered by the Administrative Office of the Courts. The account shall consist of proceeds from grants, contributions, appropriations, or other moneys made available for the purposes of the account.
(2) Notwithstanding KRS 45.229, any moneys remaining in the account not expended at the close of a fiscal year shall not lapse but shall be carried forward to the next fiscal year.
(3) Any interest earnings of the account shall become a part of the account and shall not lapse.
(4) Moneys in the account shall be used for the purposes of hiring additional deputy circuit clerks and providing salary adjustments to deputy circuit clerks and are hereby appropriated for these purposes.