While it's frustrating to have people abuse the novice rules of individual tournaments I would encourage all clubs to decline a state definition of novices. As we learned at the state meeting, rules such as this and others carry no penalty for violators and so each club will in effect be on the honor system. At the same time it sets up future rules that would attempt to take more control of your and my clubs invitationals. Would you for instance be in favor of having to hire all certified officials? Or perhaps be told how much you must pay those officials? Etc., etc., etc..
As we see in this thread, there are a hundred different ideas of what constitutes a novice and there will always be exceptions to any definition. Leave it up to each club to decide what the novice qualifications are for their invitational and keep the rules for things that can be enforced. If you don't like a particular club's idea of what is a novice, take your business elsewhere.