2012 Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes
Title 5 - ATHLETICS AND SPORTS
Chapter 31 - Preliminary Provisions
Section 3102 - Definitions

     § 3102.  Definitions.
        The following words and phrases when used in this part shall
     have the meanings given to them in this section unless the
     context clearly indicates otherwise:
        "Agency contract."  Any contract or agreement in which an
     individual or a student athlete authorizes or empowers a person
     to negotiate or solicit on behalf of the individual or the
     student athlete one or more professional sports services
     contracts.
        "Athlete agent."  A person who enters into an agency contract
     with an individual or a student athlete or directly or
     indirectly recruits or solicits an individual or a student
     athlete to enter into an agency contract. The term does not
     include a spouse, parent, sibling, son, daughter or grandparent
     of the individual or student athlete, an individual acting
     solely on behalf of a professional sports team or a coach,
     trainer or other employee of a secondary or postsecondary school
     who is acting on behalf of a student athlete of the same
     secondary or postsecondary school, provided that such activities
     are within the scope of employment of the coach, trainer or
     other employee. The term includes a person who represents to the
     public that the person is an athlete agent.
        "Athletic director."  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.
        "Commission."  The State Athletic Commission.
        "Contact."  A communication, direct or indirect, between an
     athlete agent and an individual or a student athlete to recruit
     or solicit the individual or student athlete to enter into an
     agency contract, including by telephonic, facsimile or other
     electronic method, mail, electronic mail or personal means.
        "Conviction."  A finding of guilt by a judge, jury, a plea of
     guilty or a plea of nolo contendere.
        "Department."  The Department of State of the Commonwealth.
        "Institution of higher education."  A public or private
     college or university, including a community college.
        "Intercollegiate sport."  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.
        "Person."  An individual, corporation, partnership, limited
     liability company, association, joint venture, public
     corporation or any other legal or commercial entity.
        "Professional sports services contract."  A contract or
     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.
        "Record."  Information that is inscribed on a tangible medium
     or that is stored in an electronic or other medium and is
     retrievable in perceivable form.
        "Registration."  Registration as an athlete agent pursuant to
     Chapter 33 (relating to registration).
        "State."  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.
        "Student athlete."  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.