Sec. 2. Among others, a lodge is prohibited from performing the following:

a. To hold more than one Stated Meeting a month or to adjourn or otherwise extend a Stated Meeting;

b. To open and meet at any Stated or Special meeting without the presence of at least one of the three lights;

c. To meet with less than seven (7) of its members in good standing present, except for certain ceremonies or under dispensation from the Grand Master;

d. To open in a place other than that designated in its By-Laws, except for ceremonial purposes only, and at a date and time other than the specified in its By-Laws;

e. To change its place of meeting from the city, town or municipality specified in its dispensation or charter to another place except (i) Lodges with Masonic Temples pursuant to Edict No. 302 Tolentino or (ii) unless notice of such intention is given its members at a stated Meeting and approval granted by the Grand Master;

f. To meet on Sunday except for funeral services;

g. To open or close in short form except in cases of extreme emergency or calamity to be determined by the Master;

h. To allow smoking inside a Lodge Hall at any time during Stated Meetings, Special Meetings, Installations of Officers, Conventions, Dedications of Lodge Halls, Institutions and Constitutions of Lodges and while conducting Lodge of Instructions;

i. To serve or consume alcoholic beverages in Masonic Temple or in the premises of the building in which it meets or at a Masonic banquet;

The consumption of alcoholic beverages thereat may be authorized, subject to the following regulations:

1 Consumption of alcoholic beverages may only be done at the fellowship area designated and not elsewhere within the temple or lodge premises. A lodge hall can never be designated as a fellowship area; and

2 The exercise of this privilege should be done in moderation. The Master of the Lodge, the District Deputy Grand Master, District Grand Lecturers and Inspectors having jurisdiction over the activity shall be principally liable for any untoward incident which they could have reasonably anticipated. This is without prejudice to the filing of unmasonic charges against anyone responsible.

Prior dispensation shall be required in the following instances:

a. If the fellowship is to be held at the Aguinaldo Hall of the Grand Lodge, a special written dispensation issued by the Grand Master or his duly authorized representative shall be secured: and

b. If the fellowship is to be held at the designated fellowship area of subordinate lodges, prior written dispensation of the District Deputy Grand Master having jurisdiction shall be secured (Edict No. 187-B MW Rentoy).

j. To admit a visitor without inquiry or examination and written evidence under the seal of his lodge that he is in good standing and shall prove himself to be a Master Mason by private examination by the Master's designee or by avouchment;

k. To hold Masonic intercourse with illegal or clandestine lodges or individual members thereof or recognize any entity purporting to be a Masonic lodge, unless it is a recognized subordinate lodge of a Grand Lodge with which the Grand Lodge of the Philippines has fraternal relations. The words "clandestine lodge" and "clandestine mason" shall refer to a fraternity, organization or association and a member thereof, which is not recognized by the Grand Lodge and uses the word "Masonic" as part of its name or adopts the square and compasses or any other masonic emblem, regalia, symbol or ritual without authority of the Grand Lodge;

l. To use any ritual but that of the Grand Lodge of the Philippines or to receive lectures from anyone not authorized by the Grand Lodge or the Grand Master.

Unauthorized ritual or monitors, including decoded monitors, may be confiscated by Lodge, District and Grand Lodge officials and surrendered to the Grand Lodge for proper disposition;

m. To depart from, make innovations in or change, the approved ritual, or confer degrees not in conformity therewith;

n. To allow the reading of the ritual or monitor in the opening and closing of the Lodge, in conferring degrees or in examining candidates. The monitor however may be read when giving the charges of the three degrees, and in exceptional cases where a lodge lacks fully proficient Brethren and only with the consent of the assigned Grand Lodge Inspector for that lodge, the Worshipful Master may designate the lodge's appointed lecturer or custodian of the work, or in the absence of such a senior member of the lodge, to open one copy during the conduct of the Masonic Work for reference purposes. Such exceptions may not exceed more than three consecutive communications of the subordinate lodge concerned, and at no time may any officer of a lodge, whether actual or in an acting capacity, have the Monitor open while presiding or serving in a station or place in the Lodge (Edict No. 260 MW Gabionza);

o. To solicit funds or financial assistance from other Lodges in this or any other jurisdiction;

p. To be represented at the Annual Communication unless its Annual Report has been submitted to the Grand Lodge and its dues and fees remitted;

q. To communicate in any manner with other lodges concerning the election of officers of the Grand Lodge;

r. To construct a Masonic building without prior approval of the Grand Lodge or the Grand Master;

s. To install any officer by proxy;

t. To bury with Masonic honors any mason who has fallen in a duel;

u. To appear in Masonic clothing in any public procession or at a public meeting or place, except for the burial of a brother, in a memorial service during the commemoration of the birth or death of a Brother who is a national hero, in the parade preceding the District Conventions, or for the performance of some other strictly Masonic duty or ceremony;

v. To allow gambling within its premises (Edict No. 235 MW Gonzales);

w. To ballot petitioners or to elect Lodge officers without the presence of the Grand Lodge Inspector (GLI) (Edict No. 276 MW Rentoy);

x. To use the word "Memorial" in its Lodge name; (Edict No. 298 MW Tolentino); and

y. To revise, alter, modify names of Masonic Lodges chartered under the names of President of the Republic of the Philippines (Edict No. 299 MW Tolentino).