NL max buyin games? Casino/Floor people please read

[RegBarclay]

Most of you do not know me but I am a longtime lurker of these forums and have learned a bunch from you guys.
I work the floor at a cardroom in Vienna (Austria). A couple of months ago german tv started showing poker tournaments and we are having a poker boom in Austria much like you did in the states when the WPT started going on air. Our daily tournaments have gone up from around 50 people six months ago to well over 200 now and we started spreading NL cash games which we never had up until now.

Our most popular limit is 1-2 blinds 50 min 200 max buyin and we now have 2-3 tables going every night. On to my question: when a table breaks and the remaining players draw cards for the open seats in the other games do you allow them to keep their stack or do they have to start at the new table with the max buyin at most?

I ruled that as the players come from the same game/limit they are allowed to take their seat with whatever they had at their old table even if it is more than the max buyin.

I later learned that another floor had ruled different as he said the max buyin is part of the game and if your table breaks you have to start over at the new table. I realize this is the easier solution as it also prevents players adding to their stack when between tables but on the other hand if you played for hours and come over to the remaining table which maybe also ran some time and most players have a couple of hundreds in their stacks you would be at a disadvantage by being reduced to a max buyin, just because your table happened to break.

How do you handle this? I asume that if a player asks for a table change he can only bring the max buyin and not more? What about the situation I described?

Rick, Randy, and all the others your input would be greatly appreciated.

Regards,
RegBarclay