An athlete agent shall not intentionally take any of the following actions:
 1. Give a student athlete or, if the athlete is a minor, a parent or guardian of the athlete, materially false or misleading information or make a materially false promise or representation with the intent to influence the athlete, parent, or guardian to enter into an agency contract.

Terms Used In Iowa Code 9A.114

  • Agency contract: means an agreement in which a student athlete authorizes a person to negotiate or solicit on behalf of the athlete a professional sports services contract or an endorsement contract. See Iowa Code 9A.102
  • Athlete agent: means an individual, whether or not registered under this chapter, who does any of the following:
     (1) Directly or indirectly, recruits or solicits a student athlete to enter into an agency contract or, for compensation, procures employment or offers, promises, attempts, or negotiates to obtain employment for a student athlete as a professional athlete or member of a professional sports team or organization. See Iowa Code 9A.102
  • Athletic director: means the 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, as appropriate. See Iowa Code 9A.102
  • Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
  • Educational institution: means a public or private elementary school, secondary school, technical or vocational school, community college, college, or university. See Iowa Code 9A.102
  • Enrolled: means registered for courses and attending athletic practice or class. See Iowa Code 9A.102
  • following: when used by way of reference to a chapter or other part of a statute mean the next preceding or next following chapter or other part. See Iowa Code 4.1
  • Guardian: A person legally empowered and charged with the duty of taking care of and managing the property of another person who because of age, intellect, or health, is incapable of managing his (her) own affairs.
  • Record: means information that is inscribed on a tangible medium or that is stored in an electronic or other medium and is retrievable in perceivable form. See Iowa Code 9A.102
  • Recruit or solicit: means attempt to influence the choice of an athlete agent by a student athlete or, if the athlete is a minor, a parent or guardian of the athlete. See Iowa Code 9A.102
  • Registration: means registration as an athlete agent pursuant to this chapter. See Iowa Code 9A.102
  • Student athlete: means an individual who is eligible to attend an educational institution and engages in, is eligible to engage in, or may be eligible in the future to engage in, any interscholastic or intercollegiate sport. See Iowa Code 9A.102
 2. Furnish anything of value to a student athlete or another individual, if doing so may result in loss of the athlete’s eligibility to participate in the athlete’s sport, unless all of the following actions are taken:

 a. The agent notifies the athletic director of the educational institution at which the athlete is enrolled, or at which the agent has reasonable grounds to believe the athlete intends to enroll, prior to the next scheduled athletic event in which the athlete may participate and not later than seventy-two hours after furnishing the thing of value.
 b. The student athlete or, if the athlete is a minor, a parent or guardian of the athlete, acknowledges to the agent in a record that receipt of the thing of value may result in the loss of the athlete’s eligibility to participate in the athlete’s sport.
 3. Initiate contact, directly or indirectly, with a student athlete or, if the athlete is a minor, a parent or guardian of the athlete, to recruit or solicit the athlete, parent, or guardian to enter an agency agreement unless registered under this chapter.
 4. Fail to create, retain, or permit inspection of the records required by section 9A.113.
 5. Fail to register when required by section 9A.104.
 6. Provide materially false or misleading information in an application for registration or renewal of registration.
 7. Predate or postdate an agency contract.
 8. Fail to notify a student athlete or, if the athlete is a minor, a parent or guardian of the athlete before the athlete, parent, or guardian signs an agency contract for a particular sport that the signing may result in the loss of the athlete’s eligibility to participate in the athlete’s sport.
 9. Encourage another individual to take any of the actions described in subsections 1 through 8 on behalf of the agent.
 10. Encourage another individual to assist any other individual in taking in any of the actions described in subsections 1 through 8 on behalf of the agent.
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