164.6903 Definitions for KRS 164.6901 to 164.6935.
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<![CDATA[ Page 1 of 2 164.6903 Definitions for KRS 164.6901 to 164.6935. As used in KRS 164.6901 to 164.6935, unless the context requires otherwise: <br>(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-<br>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 <br>into an agency contract. The term includes an individual who represents to the <br>public that the individual is an athlete agent. The term does not include a spouse, <br>parent, sibling, grandparent, or guardian of the student-athlete or an individual <br>acting solely on behalf of a professional sports team or professional sports <br>organization; (3) "Athletic director" means an individual responsible for administering the overall athletic program of an educational institution or, if an educational institution has <br>separately administered athletic programs for male and female students, the athletic <br>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 <br>contract; (5) "Office" means the Office of Occupations and Professions in the Public Protection Cabinet; (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 <br>the student-athlete may have because of publicity, reputation, following, or fame <br>obtained because of athletic ability or performance; (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 <br>national association for the promotion or regulation of collegiate athletics; (8) "Person" means an individual, corporation, business trust, estate, trust, partnership, limited liability company, association, joint venture, or government; governmental <br>subdivision, agency, or instrumentality; public corporation, or any other legal or <br>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 <br>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 pursuant to KRS 164.6901 to 164.6935; (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 <br>jurisdiction of the United States; and Page 2 of 2 (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 <br>is permanently ineligible to participate in a particular intercollegiate sport, the <br>individual is not a student-athlete for purposes of that sport. Effective: July 15, 2010 <br>History: Amended 2010 Ky. Acts ch. 24, sec. 214, effective July 15, 2010. -- Amended 2009 Ky. Acts ch. 12, sec. 43, effective June 25, 2009. -- Repealed and reenacted <br>2003 Ky. Acts ch. 172, sec. 2, effective June 24, 2003. -- Created 1998 Ky. Acts <br>ch. 259, sec. 1, effective July 15, 1998. Formerly codified as KRS 164.680. ]]>