2010 Pennsylvania Code
Title 18 - CRIMES AND OFFENSES
Chapter 71 - Sports and Amusements
7107 - Unlawful actions by athlete agents.

     § 7107.  Unlawful actions by athlete agents.
        (a)  Offense defined.--An athlete agent shall not do any of
     the following:
            (1)  Enter into an oral or written agent contract or
        professional sport services contract with a student athlete
        before the student athlete's eligibility for collegiate
        athletics expires.
            (2)  Give, offer or promise anything of value to a
        student athlete, to his parent or guardian or to any member
        of the student athlete's immediate family before the student
        athlete's eligibility for collegiate athletics expires.
            (3)  Enter into an oral or written agreement whereby the
        athlete agent gives, offers or promises anything of value to
        an employee of an institution of higher education in return
        for the referral of a student athlete by that employee.
        (b)  Penalty.--An athlete agent who violates subsection (a)
     commits a misdemeanor of the first degree and shall, upon
     conviction, be sentenced to pay a fine of not more than $10,000
     or an amount equal to three times the amount given, offered or
     promised as an inducement as described in subsection (a)(2) or
     three times the value of the agreement entered into as described
     in subsection (a)(3), whichever is greater, or imprisonment for
     not more than one year, or both.
        (c)  Definitions.--As used in this section, the following
     words and phrases shall have the meanings given to them in this
     subsection:
        "Agent contract."  Any contract or agreement pursuant to
     which a person authorizes or empowers an athlete agent to
     negotiate or solicit on behalf of the person with one or more
     professional sport teams for the employment of the person by a
     professional sport team or to negotiate or solicit on behalf of
     the person for the employment of the person as a professional
     athlete.
        "Athlete agent."  A person who, directly or indirectly,
     recruits or solicits a person to enter into an agent contract or
     professional sport services contract, or who procures, offers,
     promises or attempts to obtain employment for a person with a
     professional sport team or as a professional athlete.
        "Institution of higher education."  A public or private
     college or university, including a community college.
        "Person."  An individual, sole proprietorship, partnership,
     association, corporation or other legal entity.
        "Professional sport services contract."  A contract or
     agreement pursuant to which a person is employed or agrees to
     render services as a player on a professional sport team or as a
     professional athlete.
        "Student athlete."  A student enrolled in an institution of
     higher education who, while a student at the institution in
     which enrolled, is eligible to participate in any
     intercollegiate sporting event or contest in a particular sport
     and may have athletic eligibility remaining in that particular
     sport.
        "Value."  Anything of value shall be any payment, loan, gift,
     good, service, expense of any kind or the promise of any of
     these for the future, regardless of the monetary worth of any of
     these items.
     (Dec. 21, 1988, P.L.1896, No.187, eff. 60 days)

        1988 Amendment.  Act 187 added section 7107.
        Cross References.  Section 7107 is referred to in sections
     3304, 3307, 3314, 3315 of Title 5 (Athletics and Sports).