Sec. 20-559a. Definitions.
Sec. 20-559a. Definitions. As used in sections 20-559 to 20-559s, inclusive:
(1) "Agency contract" means an agreement in which a student-athlete authorizes a
person to negotiate or solicit on behalf of the student-athlete a professional-sports-services contract or an endorsement contract.
(2) "Athlete agent" means an individual who enters into an agency contract with a
student-athlete or, directly or indirectly, recruits or solicits a student-athlete to enter into
an agency contract. The term includes an individual who represents to the public that
the individual is an athlete agent. The term does not include a spouse, parent, sibling,
grandparent or guardian of the student-athlete or an individual acting solely on behalf
of a professional sports team or professional sports organization.
(3) "Athletic director" means an individual responsible for administering the overall
athletic program of an educational institution or, if an educational institution has separately administered athletic programs for male students and female students, the athletic
program for males or the athletic program for females, as appropriate.
(4) "Contact" means a communication, direct or indirect, between an athlete agent
and a student-athlete, to recruit or solicit the student-athlete to enter into an agency
contract.
(5) "Endorsement contract" means an agreement under which a student-athlete is
employed or receives consideration to use on behalf of the other party any value that the
student-athlete may have because of publicity, reputation, following or fame obtained
because of athletic ability or performance.
(6) "Intercollegiate sport" means a sport played at the collegiate level for which
eligibility requirements for participation by a student-athlete are established by a national association for the promotion or regulation of collegiate athletics.
(7) "Person" means an individual, corporation, business trust, estate, trust, partnership, limited liability company, association, joint venture, government or governmental
subdivision, agency or instrumentality, public corporation or any other legal or commercial entity.
(8) "Professional-sports-services contract" means an agreement under which an
individual is employed, or agrees to render services, as a player on a professional sports
team, with a professional sports organization or as a professional athlete.
(9) "Record" means information that is inscribed on a tangible medium or that is
stored in an electronic or other medium and is retrievable in perceivable form.
(10) "Registration" means registration as an athlete agent pursuant to sections 20-559 to 20-559s, inclusive.
(11) "State" means a state of the United States, the District of Columbia, Puerto
Rico, the United States Virgin Islands, or any territory or insular possession subject to
the jurisdiction of the United States.
(12) "Student-athlete" means an individual who engages in, is eligible to engage
in, or may be eligible in the future to engage in, any intercollegiate sport. If an individual
is permanently ineligible to participate in a particular intercollegiate sport, the individual
is not a student-athlete for purposes of that sport.
(P.A. 04-55, S. 2.)
History: P.A. 04-55 effective January 1, 2005.