Published: 2015-07-08
Key Benefits:
No athlete agent or athlete agent’s representative or employee shall, directly or indirectly, offer or provide money or any other thing of benefit or value to a student athlete.
(Added by Stats. 1996, Ch. 857, Sec. 2. Effective January 1, 1997.)
(a) Except as otherwise provided in this section, no athlete agent or athlete agent’s representative or employee may make or continue any contact, whether in person, in writing, electronically, or in any other manner, with any student athlete, or any student athlete’s spouse, parent, foster parent, guardian, grandparent, child, sibling, aunt, uncle, or first cousin, or any of the preceding persons for whom the relationship has been established by marriage, or any person who resides in the same place as the student athlete, or any representative of any of these persons.
(b) An athlete agent or athlete agent’s representative or employee may send a student athlete, or any of the other persons described in subdivision (a), written materials, provided that the athlete agent previously has sent, or simultaneously sends, an identical copy of the materials to the principal, president, or other chief administrator of the elementary or secondary school, college, university, or other educational institution to which the student athlete has been admitted or in which the student athlete is enrolled.
(c) If a student athlete, or any of the other persons described in subdivision (a), initiates contact with an athlete agent or athlete agent’s representative or employee, the athlete agent, representative or employee may continue the contact and make new contacts with that person. No later than the first regular business day after that person first initiates contact, the athlete agent shall notify in writing the principal, president, or other chief administrator of the elementary or secondary school, college, university, or other educational institution to which the student athlete has been admitted or in which the student athlete is enrolled, of that contact. The notification shall describe the nature of the contact.
(d) Any written material described in subdivision (b) and any notification required by subdivision (c), shall include the notification required by Section 18896.6.
(e) This section does not apply to any contact between an athlete agent or athlete agent’s representative or employee and a student athlete or any of the other persons described in subdivision (a), if and solely to the extent that the contact is initiated by an elementary or secondary school, college, university, or other educational institution to which the student athlete has been admitted or in which the student athlete is enrolled.
(Amended by Stats. 1997, Ch. 809, Sec. 4. Effective January 1, 1998.)
No athlete agent or athlete agent’s representative or employee shall offer or provide money or anything of benefit or value, including, but not limited to, free or reduced price legal services, to any elementary or secondary school, college, university, or other educational institution, or any representative or employee of any such educational institution in return for the referral of any clients or initiation of any contact described in subdivision (d) of Section 18897.63.
(Added by Stats. 1996, Ch. 857, Sec. 2. Effective January 1, 1997.)
An athlete agent and a student athlete who enter into an agent contract, endorsement contract or professional sports services contract shall provide written notice of the contract to the principal, president, or other chief administrator of the elementary or secondary school, college, university or other educational institution to which the student athlete has been admitted or is enrolled. The athlete agent shall provide the notice in writing within 48 hours of entering into the contract. The student athlete shall provide the notice before the student athlete practices for or participates in any interscholastic or intercollegiate sports event or within 72 hours after entering into the contract, whichever occurs first.
(Added by Stats. 1996, Ch. 857, Sec. 2. Effective January 1, 1997.)
Every agent contract, endorsement contract, or professional sports services contract entered into by a student athlete shall contain, in close proximity to the signature of the student athlete, a notice in at least 10-point boldface type stating:
“WARNING TO THE STUDENT ATHLETE: WHEN YOU SIGN THIS CONTRACT, YOU LIKELY WILL IMMEDIATELY AND PERMANENTLY LOSE YOUR ELIGIBILITY TO COMPETE IN INTERSCHOLASTIC OR INTERCOLLEGIATE SPORTS. YOU MUST GIVE THE PRINCIPAL, PRESIDENT, OR OTHER CHIEF ADMINISTRATOR OF YOUR EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION WRITTEN NOTICE THAT YOU HAVE ENTERED INTO THIS CONTRACT WITHIN 72 HOURS, OR BEFORE YOU PRACTICE FOR OR PARTICIPATE IN ANY INTERSCHOLASTIC OR INTERCOLLEGIATE SPORTS EVENT, WHICHEVER OCCURS FIRST. DO NOT SIGN THIS CONTRACT UNTIL YOU HAVE READ IT AND FILLED IN ANY BLANK SPACES. YOU MAY CANCEL THIS CONTRACT BY NOTIFYING THE ATHLETE AGENT, OR OTHER PARTY TO THIS CONTRACT, IN WRITING OF YOUR DESIRE TO CANCEL NOT LATER THAN THE 15TH DAY AFTER THE DATE YOU SIGN THIS CONTRACT. HOWEVER, EVEN IF YOU CANCEL THIS CONTRACT, THE FEDERATION OR ASSOCIATION TO WHICH YOUR EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION BELONGS MAY NOT RESTORE YOUR ELIGIBILITY.”
(Amended by Stats. 2004, Ch. 183, Sec. 20. Effective January 1, 2005.)
Within 15 days after the date a student athlete enters into an agent contract, endorsement contract or professional sports services contract, the student athlete may rescind the contract by giving written notice to the athlete agent, or other party to the contract, of the student athlete’s desire to cancel the contract. The student athlete may not under any circumstances waive the right under this section to rescind the contract.
(Added by Stats. 1996, Ch. 857, Sec. 2. Effective January 1, 1997.)
