This has been revealing in that I have been a judge advocate for this club for 3 months and was looking for some sense in the rules to make reasonable decisions..I am a retired hospital CEO, have run numerous board meetings and committee meetings, and have never run into such a morass just to move on from a dicey situation..I was not looking for a rule to suspend something "no matter what"...I wanted to help frankly (a group of men) move on from the majority decision to go non-smoking on the 31st of December . There' s one member of our group (that has a tenth of the sophistication that any of you have), but constantly calls points of order, monopolizes the meeting with reading from the book , and quotes the book when none other of us know if it's being misused or not..sigh..this really has been helpful and thank you. I can use many of your responses and trust me Daniel, I have given a lot thought about it.