2023 Oklahoma Statutes
Title 70. Schools
§70-820.25. Limitations on student athlete agreements and contracts — Permissible restrictions by institutions — Required courses for student athletes.

A. A student athlete shall not use a postsecondary institution’s marks for the purpose of securing compensation for use of his or her name, image, or likeness unless authorized by the institution.

B. A student athlete shall not enter into a name, image, and likeness agreement involving a commercial product or service that conflicts with a written policy of the postsecondary institution or that negatively impacts or reflects adversely on the postsecondary institution or its athletic programs including, but not limited to, generating public disrepute, embarrassment, scandal, ridicule or otherwise negatively impacting the reputation or the moral or ethical standards of the postsecondary institution.

C. A contract for the use of a student athlete’s name, image, or likeness or a contract for professional representation related to name, image, or likeness that is formed while the student athlete is participating in an intercollegiate sport at a postsecondary educational institution may not extend beyond the student athlete’s participation in the sport at the institution.

D. A postsecondary institution may adopt reasonable time, place, and manner restrictions to prevent a student athlete’s name, image, or likeness activities from interfering with team activities, the postsecondary institution’s operations, or the use of the institution’s facilities. A postsecondary institution may receive compensation for the use of its institutional marks or facilities in conjunction with a student athlete’s name, image, and likeness activities.

E. A collegiate athletic association shall not prohibit a postsecondary institution from establishing agreements with a third-party entity to act on its behalf to identify, facilitate, enable, or support student athlete name, image, and likeness activities.

F. An institution may require a student athlete to take courses or receive education or training in contracts, financial literacy, or any other subject the postsecondary institution deems necessary to prepare a student athlete to engage in name, image, and likeness activities.

Added by Laws 2021, c. 559, § 24, emerg. eff. May 28, 2021. Amended by Laws 2023, c. 315, § 4, emerg. eff. May 25, 2023.