Iowa § 9A.114 - 9A.114 Prohibited conduct.

§ 9A.114. 9A.114 Prohibited conduct.

An athlete agent shall not intentionally take any of the following actions: 1. Give a student athlete or, if the athlete is a minor, a parent or guardian of the athlete, materially false or misleading information or make a materially false promise or representation with the intent to influence the athlete, parent, or guardian to enter into an agency contract. 2. Furnish anything of value to a student athlete or another individual, if doing so may result in loss of the athlete’s eligibility to participate in the athlete’s sport, unless all of the following actions are taken: a. The agent notifies the athletic director of the educational institution at which the athlete is enrolled, or at which the agent has reasonable grounds to believe the athlete intends to enroll, prior to the next scheduled athletic event in which the athlete may participate and not later than seventy-two hours after furnishing the thing of value. b. The student athlete or, if the athlete is a minor, a parent or guardian of the athlete, acknowledges to the agent in a record that receipt of the thing of value may result in the loss of the athlete’s eligibility to participate in the athlete’s sport. 3. Initiate contact, directly or indirectly, with a student athlete or, if the athlete is a minor, a parent or guardian of the athlete, to recruit or solicit the athlete, parent, or guardian to enter an agency agreement unless registered under this chapter. 4. Fail to create, retain, or permit inspection of the records required by section 9A.113. 5. Fail to register when required by section 9A.104. 6. Provide materially false or misleading information in an application for registration or renewal of registration. 7. Predate or postdate an agency contract. 8. Fail to notify a student athlete or, if the athlete is a minor, a parent or guardian of the athlete before the athlete, parent, or guardian signs an agency contract for a particular sport that the signing may result in the loss of the athlete’s eligibility to participate in the athlete’s sport. 9. Encourage another individual to take any of the actions described in subsections 1 through 8 on behalf of the agent. 10. Encourage another individual to assist any other individual in taking in any of the actions described in subsections 1 through 8 on behalf of the agent. 2009 Acts, ch 33, §14; 2018 Acts, ch 1139, §24; 2022 Acts, ch 1041, §1 Referred to in §9A.106, 9A.115 Wed Dec 10 21:49:57 2025 Iowa Code 2026, Section 9A.114 (20, 0)