NRS398.490. Liability of athlete’s agent or student athlete to institution for damages caused by violation; award of attorney’s fees and costs; accrual of right of action; joint and several liability; section does not restrict other rights and remedies.

      1.  An institution has a right of action against an athlete’s agent or a former student athlete for damages caused by a violation of the Uniform Athletes’ Agents Act. In such an action, the court may award to the prevailing party costs and reasonable attorney’s fees.

      2.  Damages of an institution pursuant to subsection 1 include losses and expenses incurred because, as a result of the conduct of the athlete’s agent or former student athlete, the educational institution was injured by a violation of the Uniform Athletes’ Agent Act or was penalized, disqualified or suspended from participation in athletics by a national association for the promotion and regulation of athletics, by an athletic conference or by reasonable self-imposed disciplinary action taken to mitigate sanctions likely to be imposed by such an organization.

      3.  A right of action pursuant to this section does not accrue until the institution discovers or by the exercise of reasonable diligence should have discovered the violation by the athlete’s agent or former student athlete.

      4.  Any liability of an athlete’s agent or former student athlete pursuant to this section is joint and several.

      5.  This section does not restrict the rights, remedies or defenses of any person under other law or in equity.

      (Added to NRS by 1989, 812; A 2001, 1304)