398.452 - Submission of application for registration to Secretary of State; application is public record; required contents and disclosures of application.

398.452  Submission of application for registration to Secretary of State; application is public record; required contents and disclosures of application.  An applicant for registration shall submit an application to the Secretary of State in a form prescribed by the Secretary of State. The application must be accompanied by the appropriate fee established by the Secretary of State pursuant to NRS 398.472. An application filed pursuant to this section is a public record. The application must be in the name of a natural person and, except as otherwise provided in NRS 398.456, be signed or otherwise authenticated by the applicant under penalty of perjury and state or contain:

      1.  The name of the applicant and the address of his or her principal place of business;

      2.  The name of the applicant’s business or employer, if applicable;

      3.  Any business or occupation engaged in by the applicant for the 5 years next preceding the date of submission of the application;

      4.  A description of the applicant’s:

      (a) Formal training as an athlete’s agent;

      (b) Practical experience as an athlete’s agent; and

      (c) Educational background relating to the applicant’s activities as an athlete’s agent;

      5.  The names and addresses of three natural persons not related to the applicant who are willing to serve as references;

      6.  The name, sport and last known team for each person for whom the applicant acted as an athlete’s agent during the 5 years next preceding the date of submission of the application;

      7.  The names and addresses of all persons who are:

      (a) With respect to the athlete’s agent’s business if it is not a corporation, the partners, members, officers, managers, associates or sharers of profits of the business; and

      (b) With respect to a corporation employing the athlete’s agent, the officers, directors and shareholders having an interest of 5 percent or more;

      8.  Whether the applicant or any person named pursuant to subsection 7 has been convicted of a crime that, if committed in this state, would be a crime involving moral turpitude or a felony, and identify the crime;

      9.  Whether there has been any administrative or judicial determination that the applicant or any person named pursuant to subsection 7 has made a false, misleading, deceptive or fraudulent representation;

      10.  Any instance in which the conduct of the applicant or any person named pursuant to subsection 7 resulted in the imposition of a sanction, suspension or declaration of ineligibility to participate in an interscholastic or intercollegiate athletic event on a student athlete or an institution;

      11.  Any sanction, suspension or disciplinary action taken against the applicant or any person named pursuant to subsection 7 arising out of occupational or professional conduct; and

      12.  Whether there has been any denial of an application for, suspension or revocation of, or refusal to renew, the registration or licensure of the applicant or any person named pursuant to subsection 7 as an athlete’s agent in any state.

      (Added to NRS by 2001, 1299)