Registration at a glance
How to register
- Apply through the SoS online licensing portal - $200, with the Surety Bond with Power of Attorney in the application packet
- Deposit a surety bond of not less than $10,000 executed in favor of the state (§ 43-4A-12) - required for initial licensure AND reinstatement
- Include the prescribed warning text (§ 43-4A-15(c))
- After signing: both agent and athlete notify the athletic director within 72 hours (§ 43-4A-14) - the criminal-penalty section attaches to THIS duty
- Renew online by June 30 of odd-numbered years, $250
Official registration page: Georgia Secretary of State - Professional Licensing Boards Division (Department of Georgia Athlete Agents, Macon)
Renewal: Online, required by June 30 of odd-numbered years
Contract & notification requirements
- Prescribed verbatim WARNING TO STUDENT ATHLETE (§ 43-4A-15(c)): eligibility warning, 72-hour dual notification, 14-day cancellation
- 14-day non-waivable cancellation (§ 43-4A-16)
- No minor/parent-guardian signature provisions - consistent with the college-only scope
What the statute is silent on
Silence is not permission and not prohibition — the statute simply does not address these.
- high school athletes (definition is intercollegiate-only)
- NIL-specific provisions (none anywhere in Chapter 4A)
- minors' contracts
Penalties
§ 43-4A-11 (verbatim): "An athlete agent who violates Code Section 43-4A-14 shall be guilty of a felony and, upon conviction, shall be punished by a fine of not less than $5,000.00 nor more than $100,000.00, by imprisonment of one to five years, or both such fine and imprisonment."
§ 43-4A-17: "The Secretary of State may assess a civil penalty against an athlete agent not to exceed $25,000.00 for a violation of this chapter."
Institutional civil remedy (§ 43-4A-18): damages, costs, attorney's fees to the prevailing party; liability several, not joint.
Stated as the statute states it. Read the cited section before relying on this.
Statute
O.C.G.A. Title 43, Chapter 4A (§§ 43-4A-1 to -20, Uniform Athlete Agents Act; administration transferred to the SoS by SB 148, eff. July 1, 2010)
'Student athlete' (§ 43-4A-2(13)) references 'any intercollegiate sport' ONLY - no interscholastic language anywhere. HIGH SCHOOL NOT COVERED on the retrieved text. CURRENCY CAVEAT: statute text verified against a 2016 snapshot (live official sources block automated access); confirm current text before relying on fine detail. The SoS's own About page paraphrases the definition loosely - the statute controls.
NIL interaction
Chapter 4A is SILENT on NIL. Georgia is understood to have separate postsecondary NIL legislation outside Title 43, but its citation was NOT verified this session - do not cite it from here. (GHSA's Appendix N governs the HS NIL side separately.)
Sources
- O.C.G.A. § 43-4A-12 (surety bond) via archived codification (June 18, 2016)
An athlete agent shall deposit or have deposited with the Secretary of State, prior to the issuance of a registration or renewal of a registration, a surety bond in the penal sum of not less than $10,000.00
- Georgia SoS - Athlete Agent how-to guide (fees, bond checklist, renewal cycle) (March 26, 2022)
Change history
- July 19, 2026 — Initial publication from primary-source research pass (statute text read directly; penalties quoted verbatim).
Spot an error? Tell us and cite the statute.
Other states
- Alabama — Revised UAAA
- Arkansas — No athlete-agent statute
- California — Non-uniform state law
- Florida — Non-uniform state law
- Kentucky — Revised UAAA
- Louisiana — Non-uniform state law
- Missouri — Original UAAA (2000)
- Mississippi — Revised UAAA
- Ohio — Non-uniform state law
- Oklahoma — Revised UAAA
- South Carolina — Non-uniform state law
- Tennessee — Revised UAAA
- Texas — Original UAAA (2000)