5. (1) Appointment, Constitution and Term:-
(i) The trustees of the Board of Trustees ("Board") shall be appointed by the State Government:
(ii) There shall be two kinds of trustees in the Board, namelynominated trustees and ex-officio trustees;
(iii) The nominated trustees shall be a total of eleven (11) persons which will include:-
(a) three (3) eminent persons including seers, saints, gurus, scholars, mathadhishs, mahants, acharya, swamis from the Vaishnav traditions, orders or peethas;
(b) three (3) eminent persons including seers, saints, gurus, scholars, mathadhishs, mahants, acharyas, swamis from other traditions, orders or peethas of the Sanatan Dharma;
(c) three (3) persons of eminence from any walk of life including but not limited to scholars, educationists, academics, entrepreneurs, professionals and philanthropists from any branch or order of the Sanatan Dharma:
(d) two (2) members from the officiating Goswamis at the temple, being descendants of Swami Shri Haridas Ji, one representing the Raj Bhog Sewayats and one representing the Shayan bhog Sewayats, from the nominations received in this behalf:
(iv) The ex-officio trustees shall not exceed seven (7) but shall include the following incumbents,namely:
(a) District Magistrate, Mathura:
(b) Senior Superintendent of Police, Mathura:
(c) Municipal Commissioner, Mathura;
(d) Chief Executive Officer of the Uttar Pradesh Braj Teerth Vikas Parishad;
(e) An officer of Dharmath Karya Vibhag, Government of Uttar Pradesh;
(f) Chief Executive Officer of Shri Bankey Bihari Ji Temple Trust;
(g) Such other member as appointed by the State Government by virtue of their considered expedient to be appointed for the objects of the trust.
(v) The nominated trustees shall be appointed for a period of three years subject to their resignation or death, and no trustee can be appointed successively and that no trustee can be appointed for more than two times;
(vi) The ex-officio trustees shall be trustees by virtue of their office and shall be members as long as they hold office;
(vii) All trustees shall be Hindus and subscribe to the Santana Dharma. No person other than Hindu shall be appointed as a nominated trustee. In case of ex-officio trustees if a person does not belong to the Sanatan Dharma/does not identify as a Hindu or where a person identifies as a Hindu but expresses inability to discharge the office of a trustee on account of his personal beliefs, the person junior to the appointee shall be so appointed;
(viii) No person who has been convicted of any crime under a court of law shall be appointed to the Board;
(ix) No person shall be disqualified for appointment on account of his/her caste or gender;
(x) Upon a vacancy due to death, resignation or otherwise, as and when a new member in the Board of Trustees has to be appointed, the new member shall be elected by other members of the Board of the trustees, by a majority.