The appointed counsel fund shall be used only to pay the reasonable fees approved by the court for the appointment of an attorney to represent any defendant found by the judge to be indigent and unable to pay for legal representation, and where the supreme court rules or the law prescribes such appointment. Provided further, that no municipal court shall retain more than one thousand five hundred dollars in the judicial education fund for each judge, administrator or clerk of the municipal court and no more than five thousand dollars in the appointed counsel fund. Any excess funds shall be transmitted quarterly to the general revenue fund of the county or municipal treasury.
§ 479.260, RSMo