2006 Minnesota Statutes

81A.02 DEFINITIONS.
    Subdivision 1. Terms. For purposes of sections 81A.01 to 81A.21, the terms defined in
this section have the meanings given them.
    Subd. 2. Agency contract. "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.
    Subd. 3. Athlete agent. "Athlete agent" means an individual who enters into an agency
contract with a student athlete or, directly or indirectly for remuneration, 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.
    Subd. 4. Athletic director. "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.
    Subd. 5. Commissioner. "Commissioner" means the commissioner of commerce.
    Subd. 6. Contact. "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.
    Subd. 7. Endorsement contract. "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.
    Subd. 8. Intercollegiate sport. "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.
    Subd. 9. Person. "Person" means an individual, corporation, business trust, estate, trust,
partnership, limited liability company, association, or joint venture; government, governmental
subdivision, agency, or instrumentality; public corporation; or any other legal or commercial
entity.
    Subd. 10. Professional sports services contract. "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.
    Subd. 11. Record. "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.
    Subd. 12. Registration. "Registration" means registration as an athlete agent under sections
81A.01 to 81A.21.
    Subd. 13. State. "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.
    Subd. 14. Student athlete. "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.
History: 2002 c 332 s 2