1. In Division I, representatives of the University's athletics interests (boosters) are prohibited from making in-person on- or off-campus recruiting contacts, writing or calling prospects or the prospect's relatives or legal guardians, or comunicating electronically with prospects, i.e., e-mail, instant messanger, chat room, message board.
   
   
2. An in-person contact is any face-to-face encounter between a prospective student-athlete or his or her parents/legal guardians during which any dialogue occurs in excess of an exchange of greeting. Any face-to-face encounter which is prearranged and which takes place on the grounds of the prospect's school or at the site of competition or practice shall be considered a contact, regardless of the conversation that occurs.
   
   
3. A representative of the University's athletic interests is any individual who is a member of the University's athletic booster club, has made donations to the booster club or athletic department, is involved in any manner in recruiting prospects or in providing benefits (e.g., summer jobs) to enrolled student-athletes or is otherwise involved in promoting the University's athletics program.
   
   
4. Athletic representatives are governed by the same NCAA and institutional rules and regulations as those placed upon all institutional athletics staff members.
   
   
5. Inducements (extra benefits) that are prohibited include but are not limited to the following: cash, loans, promise of employment after college, special discounts or payment arrangements on loans; employment of relatives or friend of a prospect; involvement in arrangement for free or reduced charges for professional or personal services; use of an automobile; providing transportation to or from a summer job or to any other site; signing or co-signing a note for a loan; the loan or gift of money or other tangible items (e.g., clothes, cars, jewelry, electronic/stereo equipment); guarantees of bond; purchase of items or services from a prospect or the prospect's family at inflated prices; providing directly or indirectly transportation to enroll in class or the University; any financial aid other than that administered by the institution; the promise of financial aid for postgraduate education, free or reduced cost housing arrangements, and payment or arrangement for the payment of transportation costs incurred by the relatives or friends of prospects.
   
   
6. A booster may not entertain, buy a complimentary meal for, or expend any funds on the prospect or his or her guardians, relatives, or friends.
   
   
7. Contacts between a prospect and booster related to permissible preenrollment activities (e.g., summer employment arrangements) subsequent to the prospect's signing of the National Letter of Intent are not precluded by the legislation.
   
   
8. Boosters may view a prospect's contest on the booster's initiative, subject to the understanding that the booster may not contact the prospect. The booster is prohibited from contacting the prospect's coach, principal, or counselors in an attempt to evaluate the prospect, as well as from visiting the prospect's school to pick up film or transcripts pertaining to the evaluation of the prospect's academic or athletics ability.
   
   

Boosters may not:

• provide a Student-Athlete (SA) with a special discount, payment plan, or credit on a purchase or a service
  
  
• provide a SA with professional services without charge or at a reduced cost
  
  
• allow a SA to use a phone or credit card without charge or at a reduced cost
  
  
• make available to student-athletes services from commercial agencies without charge or at reduced rates
  
  
• provide a SA with extra benefits or services including, but not limited to: a loan of money, the use of an automobile, signing or co-signing a loan
  
  
• make in-person on- or off-campus recruiting contacts to prospects, prospect's relatives or legal guardians
  
  
• make telephone or written contact with prospects
  
  
• contact prospects' coaches, principals, or counselors in an attempt to evaluate prospects
  
  
• contribute to the payment of registration fees for prospects to attend sports summer campus
  
  
• mail anything including newspapers, clippings, posters, programs, etc.
  
  
• contribute to the payment of transportation costs for prospects or prospect's relatives or friends to visit the campus
  
  

Boosters may:

• provide summer employment for enrolled student-athletes under the following conditions: the athlete is paid only for work actually performed and at a rate commensurate with the going rate in that locality for similar services; transportation related to the job may not be provided unless it is provided to all employees in that particular job
  
  
• provide an occasional family home meal. The meal must be provided in an individual's home and must be restricted to infrequent and special occasions
  
  
• send recommendation letters, newspaper clippings or similar information about the prospects to coaches
  
  
• attend high school athletic events without contacting prospects