Mississippi Code 1972 (2023) › Title 73 - PROFESSIONS AND VOCATIONS (§§ 73-1-1 — 73-79-1) › Chapter 42 - UNIFORM ATHLETE AGENTS LAW (§§ 73-42-1 — 73-42-39) › Section 73-42-3 - Definitions

In this chapter:
(a)
"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, an endorsement contract, or compensation for the use of the student-athlete's publicity rights; provided, however, that an agency contract shall not provide for athlete agent compensation that exceeds twenty percent (20%) of the agency contract.
(b)
"Athlete agent" means an individual who enters into an agency contract with a student-athlete or, directly or indirectly, recruits, induces or solicits a student-athlete to enter into an agency contract. 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. The term includes an individual who represents to the public that the individual is an athlete agent.
(c)
"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.
(d)
"Contact" means a communication, direct or indirect, written or oral, between an athlete agent and a student-athlete, to recruit, induce or solicit the student-athlete to enter into an agency contract.
(e)
"Endorsement contract" means an agreement under which a student-athlete receives compensation or anything of value for the student-athlete's publicity rights.
(f)
"Intercollegiate athletics program" means an intercollegiate athletics sport played at the collegiate level for which eligibility requirements for participation by a student-athlete are established by a national association , conference or any other group or organization with authority over the sport, that promotes or regulates collegiate athletics.
(g)
"Person" means an individual, corporation, business trust, estate, trust, partnership, limited liability company, association, joint venture, government; governmental subdivision, agency or instrumentality; public corporation, or any other legal or commercial entity.
(h)
"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.
(i)
"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.
(j)
"Registration" means registration as an athlete agent pursuant to this chapter.
(k)
"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.
(l)
"Student-athlete" means an individual who is enrolled in or has signed a National Letter of Intent or other written agreement to enroll in a postsecondary educational institution or is being recruited by a postsecondary educational institution to participate in an intercollegiate athletics program. 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.
Laws, 2001, ch. 536, § 2; Laws, 2011, ch. 541, § 2, eff. 4/26/2011.
Amended by Laws, 2024, ch. 378, SB 2417,§ 7, eff. 4/18/2024.
Amended by Laws, 2021, ch. 444, SB 2313,§ 6, eff. 7/1/2021.