N.Y. General Business Law § 899-e: Certificate of registration; issuance or denial; renewal

§ 899-e. Certificate of registration; issuance or denial; renewal. 1.

Except as otherwise provided in subdivision two of this section, the

secretary of state shall issue a certificate of registration to an

individual who complies with subdivision one of section eight hundred

ninety-nine-d of this article or whose application has been accepted

under subdivision two of section eight hundred ninety-nine-d of this

article.

2. The secretary of state may refuse to issue a certificate of

registration if the secretary of state determines that the applicant has

engaged in conduct that has a significant adverse effect on the

applicant's fitness to act as an athlete agent. In making the

determination, the secretary of state may consider whether the applicant

has:

(a) been convicted of a crime that, if committed in this state, would

be a crime involving moral turpitude or a felony;

(b) made a materially false, misleading, deceptive or fraudulent

representation in the application or as an athlete agent;

(c) engaged in conduct that would disqualify the applicant from

serving in a fiduciary capacity;

(d) engaged in conduct prohibited by section eight hundred

ninety-nine-l of this article;

(e) had a registration or licensure as an athlete agent suspended,

revoked or denied, or been refused renewal of registration or licensure

as an athlete agent in any state;

(f) engaged in conduct the consequence of which was that a sanction,

suspension or declaration of ineligibility to participate in an

interscholastic or intercollegiate athletic event was imposed on a

student-athlete or educational institution; or

(g) engaged in conduct that significantly adversely reflects on the

applicant's credibility, honesty or integrity.

3. In making a determination under subdivision two of this section,

the secretary of state shall consider the factors set forth in article

twenty-three of the correction law.

4. An athlete agent may apply to renew a registration by submitting an

application for renewal in such form as shall be prescribed by the

secretary of state. An application filed pursuant to this section shall

be a public record. The application for renewal shall be signed by the

applicant under penalty of perjury and shall contain current information

on all matters required in an original registration.

5. An individual who has submitted an application for renewal of

registration or licensure in another state, in lieu of submitting an

application for renewal in the form prescribed pursuant to subdivision

four of this section, may file a copy of the application for renewal and

a valid certificate of registration or licensure from the other state.

The secretary of state shall accept the application for renewal from the

other state as an application for renewal in this state if the

application to the other state:

(a) was submitted in the other state within six months next preceding

the filing in this state and the applicant certifies the information

contained in the application for renewal is current;

(b) contains information substantially similar to or more

comprehensive than that required in an application for renewal submitted

in this state; and

(c) was signed by the applicant under penalty of perjury.

6. A certificate of registration or a renewal of a registration shall

be valid for two years.