SECTIONS 18897.6-18897.77 - California Statutes

BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONS CODE

SECTION 18897.6-18897.77

18897.6. No athlete agent or athlete agent's representative or
employee shall, directly or indirectly, offer or provide money or any
other thing of benefit or value to a student athlete.

18897.63. (a) Except as otherwise provided in this section, no
athlete agent or athlete agent's representative or employee may make
or continue any contact, whether in person, in writing,
electronically, or in any other manner, with any student athlete, or
any student athlete's spouse, parent, foster parent, guardian,
grandparent, child, sibling, aunt, uncle, or first cousin, or any of
the preceding persons for whom the relationship has been established
by marriage, or any person who resides in the same place as the
student athlete, or any representative of any of these persons.
(b) An athlete agent or athlete agent's representative or employee
may send a student athlete, or any of the other persons described in
subdivision (a), written materials, provided that the athlete agent
previously has sent, or simultaneously sends, an identical copy of
the materials to the principal, president, or other chief
administrator of the elementary or secondary school, college,
university, or other educational institution to which the student
athlete has been admitted or in which the student athlete is
enrolled.
(c) If a student athlete, or any of the other persons described in
subdivision (a), initiates contact with an athlete agent or athlete
agent's representative or employee, the athlete agent, representative
or employee may continue the contact and make new contacts with that
person. No later than the first regular business day after that
person first initiates contact, the athlete agent shall notify in
writing the principal, president, or other chief administrator of the
elementary or secondary school, college, university, or other
educational institution to which the student athlete has been
admitted or in which the student athlete is enrolled, of that
contact. The notification shall describe the nature of the contact.
(d) Any written material described in subdivision (b) and any
notification required by subdivision (c), shall include the
notification required by Section 18896.6.
(e) This section does not apply to any contact between an athlete
agent or athlete agent's representative or employee and a student
athlete or any of the other persons described in subdivision (a), if
and solely to the extent that the contact is initiated by an
elementary or secondary school, college, university, or other
educational institution to which the student athlete has been
admitted or in which the student athlete is enrolled.

18897.67. No athlete agent or athlete agent's representative or
employee shall offer or provide money or anything of benefit or
value, including, but not limited to, free or reduced price legal
services, to any elementary or secondary school, college, university,
or other educational institution, or any representative or employee
of any such educational institution in return for the referral of any
clients or initiation of any contact described in subdivision (d) of
Section 18897.63.

18897.7. An athlete agent and a student athlete who enter into an
agent contract, endorsement contract or professional sports services
contract shall provide written notice of the contract to the
principal, president, or other chief administrator of the elementary
or secondary school, college, university or other educational
institution to which the student athlete has been admitted or is
enrolled. The athlete agent shall provide the notice in writing
within 48 hours of entering into the contract. The student athlete
shall provide the notice before the student athlete practices for or
participates in any interscholastic or intercollegiate sports event
or within 72 hours after entering into the contract, whichever occurs
first.

18897.73. Every agent contract, endorsement contract, or
professional sports services contract entered into by a student
athlete shall contain, in close proximity to the signature of the
student athlete, a notice in at least 10-point boldface type stating:

"WARNING TO THE STUDENT ATHLETE: WHEN YOU SIGN THIS CONTRACT, YOU
LIKELY WILL IMMEDIATELY AND PERMANENTLY LOSE YOUR ELIGIBILITY TO
COMPETE IN INTERSCHOLASTIC OR INTERCOLLEGIATE SPORTS. YOU MUST GIVE
THE PRINCIPAL, PRESIDENT, OR OTHER CHIEF ADMINISTRATOR OF YOUR
EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION WRITTEN NOTICE THAT YOU HAVE ENTERED INTO
THIS CONTRACT WITHIN 72 HOURS, OR BEFORE YOU PRACTICE FOR OR
PARTICIPATE IN ANY INTERSCHOLASTIC OR INTERCOLLEGIATE SPORTS EVENT,
WHICHEVER OCCURS FIRST. DO NOT SIGN THIS CONTRACT UNTIL YOU HAVE READ
IT AND FILLED IN ANY BLANK SPACES. YOU MAY CANCEL THIS CONTRACT BY
NOTIFYING THE ATHLETE AGENT, OR OTHER PARTY TO THIS CONTRACT, IN
WRITING OF YOUR DESIRE TO CANCEL NOT LATER THAN THE 15TH DAY AFTER
THE DATE YOU SIGN THIS CONTRACT. HOWEVER, EVEN IF YOU CANCEL THIS
CONTRACT, THE FEDERATION OR ASSOCIATION TO WHICH YOUR EDUCATIONAL
INSTITUTION BELONGS MAY NOT RESTORE YOUR ELIGIBILITY."

18897.77. Within 15 days after the date a student athlete enters
into an agent contract, endorsement contract or professional sports
services contract, the student athlete may rescind the contract by
giving written notice to the athlete agent, or other party to the
contract, of the student athlete's desire to cancel the contract. The
student athlete may not under any circumstances waive the right
under this section to rescind the contract.