§70-821.82. Definitions.

70 OK Stat § 70-821.82 (2019) (N/A)
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As used in the Uniform Athlete Agents Act:

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, including an agreement for current or future representation in which a student-athlete authorizes a person to assess and plan the financial situation of the student-athlete regarding his or her professional athletics career;

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, but is not limited to, an individual who:

a.Contributes a causal nexus to a student-athlete becoming the signator to an agency contract;

b.Represents to the public that the individual is an athlete agent; or

c.Enters into an agreement for current or future representation with a student-athlete regarding his or her future athletics career or, directly or indirectly, recruits or solicits a student-athlete to enter into such an agreement.

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, unless such individual acts on behalf of an athlete agent in exchange for any compensation, gift or reward or promise of compensation, gift or reward from, or on behalf of, an athlete agent;

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 any type of 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, 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 the Uniform Athlete Agents Act;

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; and

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.

Added by Laws 2003, c. 375, § 2, eff. Jan. 1, 2004. Amended by Laws 2009, c. 222, § 1, eff. Nov. 1, 2009; Laws 2011, c. 211, § 1, eff. Nov. 1, 2011.