CHAPTER 1. SHORT TITLE AND DEFINITIONS
IC 25-5.2
ARTICLE 5.2. ATHLETE AGENTS
IC 25-5.2-1
Chapter 1. Short Title and Definitions
IC 25-5.2-1-1
Short title
Sec. 1. This article may be cited as the Uniform Athlete Agents
Act.
As added by P.L.54-2001, SEC.5.
IC 25-5.2-1-2
Definitions applicable to article
Sec. 2. The following definitions apply throughout this article:
(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) "Applicant" means an individual who applies for a
certificate of registration as an athlete agent under this article.
(3) "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.
(4) "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.
(5) "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.
(6) "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. The term
includes the value of any part of the student athlete's right of
publicity (as defined in IC 32-36-1-7).
(7) "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.
(8) "Person" means an individual, a corporation, a business
trust, an estate, a trust, a partnership, a limited liability
company, an association, a joint venture, a government, a
governmental subdivision, an agency, or an instrumentality, a
public corporation, or any other legal or commercial entity.
(9) "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.
(10) "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.
(11) "Registration" means registration as an athlete agent under
this article.
(12) "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.
(13) "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.
As added by P.L.54-2001, SEC.5. Amended by P.L.1-2003, SEC.74.