(225 ILCS 401/175)
Sec. 175. Criminal penalties.
(a) Any person who is found to have violated any provision of this Act is guilty of a Class A misdemeanor. On conviction of a second or subsequent offense, the violator shall be guilty of a Class 4 felony.
(b) In addition, an athlete agent or an individual holding oneself out as an athlete agent shall be guilty of a Class A misdemeanor if he or she, with the intent to induce a student-athlete to enter into an agency contract, does any of the following:
(1) gives any materially false or misleading
information or makes a materially false promise or representation;
(2) furnishes anything of value to a student-athlete
before the student-athlete enters into the agency contract;
(3) furnishes anything of value to any individual
other than the student-athlete or another athlete agent;
(4) initiates contact with a student-athlete unless
registered under this Act;
(5) refuses or fails to retain or permit inspection
of the records as required under this Act;
(6) provides materially false or misleading
information in an application for licensure;
(7) predates or postdates an agency contract; or
(8) fails to notify a student-athlete before the
student-athlete signs or otherwise authenticates an agency contract for a particular sport that the signing or authentication may make the student-athlete ineligible to participate as a student-athlete in that sport.
(Source: P.A. 96-1030, eff. 1-1-11.)
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