(a)As used in this act:
(i)"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;
(ii)"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 does not include a spouse, parent,
sibling, grandparent or legal guardian of the student athlete or
an individual acting solely on behalf of a professional sports
team or professional sports organization. The term includes an
individual who represents to the public that the individual is
an athlete agent;
(iii)"Athletic director" means an individual
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(a) As used in this act:
(i) "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;
(ii) "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 does not include a spouse, parent,
sibling, grandparent or legal guardian of the student athlete or
an individual acting solely on behalf of a professional sports
team or professional sports organization. The term includes an
individual who represents to the public that the individual is
an athlete agent;
(iii) "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;
(iv) "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;
(v) "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;
(vi) "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;
(vii) "Person" means an individual, corporation,
business trust, estate, trust, partnership, limited liability
company, association, joint venture or government; governmental
subdivision, agency or instrumentality; public corporation; or
any other legal or commercial entity;
(viii) "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;
(ix) "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;
(x) "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;
(xi) "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; and
(xii) "This act" means W.S. 33-44-101 through