N.Y. General Business Law 899-L – Prohibited conduct
§ 899-l. Prohibited conduct. 1. An athlete agent, with the intent to induce a student-athlete to enter into an agency contract, shall not:
Terms Used In N.Y. General Business Law 899-L
- Agency contract: means an agreement in which a student-athlete authorizes a person to negotiate or solicit on behalf of the student-athlete a professional sports-services contract or an endorsement contract. See N.Y. General Business Law 899-A
- Athlete agent: means an individual who enters into an agency contract with a student-athlete or, directly or indirectly, recruits or solicits a student-athlete to enter into an agency contract. See N.Y. General Business Law 899-A
- Contact: means a communication, direct or indirect, between an athlete agent and a student-athlete, to recruit or solicit the student-athlete to enter into an agency contract. See N.Y. General Business Law 899-A
- Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
- Registration: means registration as an athlete agent pursuant to this article. See N.Y. General Business Law 899-A
- State: means 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. See N.Y. General Business Law 899-A
- Student-athlete: means an individual who engages in, is eligible to engage in, may be eligible in the future to engage in or was eligible in the past thirty days to engage in any intercollegiate or interscholastic sport. See N.Y. General Business Law 899-A
(a) give any materially false or misleading information or make a materially false promise or representation;
(b) furnish anything of value to a student-athlete before the student-athlete enters into the agency contract;
(c) furnish anything of value to any other individual or another registered athlete agent before the student-athlete enters into the agency contract; or
(d) fail to notify the student-athlete before he or she signs or otherwise authenticates an agency contract for a particular sport that the signing or authentication may make the student-athlete ineligible to participate in that sport.
The prohibitions contained within this subdivision shall not prohibit an athlete agent from sponsoring or furnishing equipment to an amateur athletic team through a government or not-for-profit entity registered with the secretary of state pursuant to § 172 of the executive law or entities exempt from Article 7-A of the executive law pursuant to § 172-a of the executive law, provided that sponsorship or equipment will not result in a student-athlete being rendered ineligible to participate in intercollegiate athletics.
2. An athlete agent shall not willfully:
(a) initiate contact with a student-athlete unless registered pursuant to this article;
(b) refuse or fail to retain or permit inspection of the records required to be retained by section eight hundred ninety-nine-k of this article;
(c) fail to register when required by section eight hundred ninety-nine-c of this article;
(d) provide materially false or misleading information in an application for registration or renewal of registration; or
(e) predate or postdate an agency contract.