Colorado Code § 23-16-202

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(1) "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.
(2) "Athlete agent" means an individual who enters into an agency contract with a
student athlete or, directly or indirectly, 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.
(3) "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.
(4) "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.
(5) Repealed.
(6) "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.
(7) "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.
(8) "Person" means an individual, corporation, business trust, estate, trust, partnership,
limited liability company, association, joint venture, or government; a governmental subdivision,
agency, or instrumentality; a public corporation; or any other legal or commercial entity.
(9) "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.
(10) "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.
(11) Repealed.
(12) "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.
(13) "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.

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