§ 23-16-202 — Definitions

Colorado § 23-16-202

• Jurisdiction: Colorado
• Title 23: Postsecondary Education
• Art.: Limitation on Athlete Agents

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In this part 2:

(1) 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.

(2) 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. The term includes an individual who represents to
the public that the individual is an athlete agent. The term does not include a
spouse, parent, sibling, grandparent, or guardian of the student athlete or an
individual acting solely on behalf of a professional sports team or professional
sports organization.

(3) Athletic director means 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, as
appropriate.

(4) 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.

(5) Repealed.

(6) Endorsement contract means an agreement under which a student
athlete is employed or receives consideration to use on behalf of the other party
any value that the student athlete may have because of publicity, reputation,
following, or fame obtained because of athletic ability or performance.

(7) Intercollegiate sport means 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.

(8) Person means an individual, corporation, business trust, estate, trust,
partnership, limited liability company, association, joint venture, or government; a
governmental subdivision, agency, or instrumentality; a public corporation; or any
other legal or commercial entity.

(9) Professional-sports-services contract means an 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.

(10) 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.

(11) Repealed.

(12) 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.

(13) Student athlete means 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.

Legislative History

Source: L. 2008: Entire part added, p. 1002, � 1, effective July 1. L. 2010: (5) and (11) repealed, (HB 10-1128), ch. 172, p. 617, � 17, effective April 29.