Illinois Compiled Statutes 225 ILCS 401 Illinois Athlete Agents Act. Section 175

    (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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