2013 New York Consolidated Laws
GBS - General Business
Article 39-E - (899 - 899-P) UNIFORM ATHLETE AGENTS ACT
899-L - Prohibited conduct.


NY Gen Bus L § 899-L (2012) What's This?
 
    §  899-l.  Prohibited conduct. 1. An athlete agent, with the intent to
  induce a student-athlete to enter into an agency contract, shall not:
    (a) give any materially false or  misleading  information  or  make  a
  materially false promise or representation;
    (b)  furnish  anything  of  value  to  a  student-athlete  before  the
  student-athlete enters into the agency contract;
    (c) furnish anything of value  to  any  other  individual  or  another
  registered  athlete  agent  before  the  student-athlete enters into the
  agency contract; or
    (d) fail to notify the student-athlete  before  he  or  she  signs  or
  otherwise  authenticates  an agency contract for a particular sport that
  the signing or authentication may make the student-athlete ineligible to
  participate in that sport.
    The prohibitions contained within this subdivision shall not  prohibit
  an  athlete  agent from sponsoring or furnishing equipment to an amateur
  athletic team through a government or not-for-profit  entity  registered
  with  the secretary of state pursuant to section one hundred seventy-two
  of the executive law or entities exempt  from  article  seven-A  of  the
  executive  law  pursuant  to  section  one  hundred seventy-two-a of the
  executive law, provided that sponsorship or equipment will not result in
  a  student-athlete  being  rendered   ineligible   to   participate   in
  intercollegiate athletics.
    2. An athlete agent shall not willfully:
    (a) initiate contact with a student-athlete unless registered pursuant
  to this article;
    (b)  refuse  or  fail  to  retain  or permit inspection of the records
  required to be retained by section eight hundred ninety-nine-k  of  this
  article;
    (c)   fail   to  register  when  required  by  section  eight  hundred
  ninety-nine-c of this article;
    (d)  provide  materially  false  or  misleading  information   in   an
  application for registration or renewal of registration; or
    (e) predate or postdate an agency contract.

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