2005 Idaho Code - 54-4802 — DEFINITIONS

                                  TITLE  54
                    PROFESSIONS, VOCATIONS, AND BUSINESSES
                                  CHAPTER 48
                          UNIFORM ATHLETE AGENTS ACT
    54-4802.  DEFINITIONS. As used in this chapter:
    (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)  "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.
    (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 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.
    (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, governmental 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
this chapter.
    (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.
    (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.