(a) Except as otherwise provided in this section, no athlete agent or athlete agent’s representative or employee may make or continue any contact, whether in person, in writing, electronically, or in any other manner, with any student athlete, or any student athlete’s spouse, parent, foster parent, guardian, grandparent, child, sibling, aunt, uncle, or first cousin, or any of the preceding persons for whom the relationship has been established by marriage, or any person who resides in the same place as the student athlete, or any representative of any of these persons.
(b) An athlete agent or athlete agent’s representative or employee may send a student athlete, or any of the other persons described in subdivision (a), written materials, provided that the athlete agent previously has sent, or simultaneously sends, an identical copy of the materials to the principal, president, or other chief administrator of the elementary or secondary school, college, university, or other educational institution to which the student athlete has been admitted or in which the student athlete is enrolled.
(c) If a student athlete, or any of the other persons described in subdivision (a), initiates contact with an athlete agent or athlete agent’s representative or employee, the athlete agent, representative or employee may continue the contact and make new contacts with that person. No later than the first regular business day after that person first initiates contact, the athlete agent shall notify in writing the principal, president, or other chief administrator of the elementary or secondary school, college, university, or other educational institution to which the student athlete has been admitted or in which the student athlete is enrolled, of that contact. The notification shall describe the nature of the contact.
(d) Any written material described in subdivision (b) and any notification required by subdivision (c), shall include the notification required by Section 18896.6.
(e) This section does not apply to any contact between an athlete agent or athlete agent’s representative or employee and a student athlete or any of the other persons described in subdivision (a), if and solely to the extent that the contact is initiated by an elementary or secondary school, college, university, or other educational institution to which the student athlete has been admitted or in which the student athlete is enrolled.
(Amended by Stats. 1997, Ch. 809, Sec. 4. Effective January 1, 1998.)
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