How many hours' notice must a landlord give before entering in Arkansas?

No fixed statutory period (see notice standard). Arkansas requires no advance notice of any length before a landlord enters. The state does have an entry statute, but A.C.A. 18-17-602(a) only provides that a tenant 'shall not unreasonably withhold consent' to landlord entry for the listed purposes.

What reasons allow a landlord to enter a rental in Arkansas?

A tenant may not unreasonably withhold consent to entry for inspections, necessary or agreed repairs and improvements, necessary or agreed services, investigating possible rule or lease violations, investigating possible criminal activity, or showings to prospective or actual purchasers, mortgagees, tenants, workers, or contractors (A.C.A. 18-17-602(a)).

How much notice must a landlord give before entering in Arkansas?

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Measure that did not become law. The following recent proposal failed and is not law — noted here because failed bills are sometimes still described as if enacted:

SB 501 (2025 RS) — 'Tenant Possessions Recovery Act' — Would have required a landlord to give a tenant at least 14 days' written notice before the scheduled repossession date after a court issues a writ of possession, and created a process for tenants to recover personal possessions left behind. Adjacent to, rather than within, the deposit, rent-increase, late-fee, entry and eviction topics covered here, but it was the session's principal tenant-side bill.Status: Dead. Filed 2025-03-18, amended and re-referred to Senate Judiciary 2025-03-20, died in committee at the 2025-05-05 sine die adjournment. The 2026 fiscal session was appropriations-only; watch for a refile in the 2027 regular session (Arkansas holds regular sessions in odd years). (checked 2026-07-10).

Arkansas requires no advance notice — not 24 hours, not 'reasonable notice,' nothing — before a landlord enters a rental unit: the state's access statute simply forbids the tenant from unreasonably withholding consent to entry for inspections, repairs, services, showings, or investigations of suspected lease violations or criminal activity.

Cited to A.C.A. § 18-17-602 (Access; unamended since Acts 2007, No. 1004) (a)-(b) and 2 more Arkansas statutes · Verified July 10, 2026

The statute is written entirely as a tenant duty, and its enforcement runs one way: a tenant who refuses lawful access faces an injunction (no bond required), lease termination, actual damages, and attorney's fees, while no statute gives a tenant any remedy against abusive or excessive entry — Arkansas law contains no anti-harassment clause, no time-of-day limit, and no emergency-entry provision to bound the landlord's side. Tenants are also barred from changing the locks without the landlord's permission. A tenant's only protections are the word 'unreasonably,' whatever notice the lease itself promises, and common-law trespass principles, so lease drafting carries the entire load in Arkansas.

Arkansas entry notice at a glance

Advance notice required	No fixed statutory period (see notice standard)
Notice standard	Arkansas requires no advance notice of any length before a landlord enters. The state does have an entry statute, but A.C.A. 18-17-602(a) only provides that a tenant 'shall not unreasonably withhold consent' to landlord entry for the listed purposes. That section contains no advance-notice requirement of any length, no 'reasonable times' limitation, no anti-harassment clause, and no emergency-entry provision. It applies statewide under the 2007 act, subject only to the 18-17-202 exclusions.
Permitted reasons	A tenant may not unreasonably withhold consent to entry for inspections, necessary or agreed repairs and improvements, necessary or agreed services, investigating possible rule or lease violations, investigating possible criminal activity, or showings to prospective or actual purchasers, mortgagees, tenants, workers, or contractors (A.C.A. 18-17-602(a)). The full statutory list is inspections; necessary or agreed repairs, decorations, alterations, or improvements; necessary or agreed services; investigating possible rule or lease violations; investigating possible criminal activity; and showings to prospective or actual purchasers, mortgagees, tenants, workers, or contractors. The investigation purposes are broader than the URLTA-model lists in neighboring states. Separately, 18-17-602(b) bars the TENANT from changing locks without the landlord's permission, and 18-17-702(a) lets the landlord enter to cure the tenant's own health and safety failures after 14 days' written notice (or 'as promptly as conditions require' in an emergency) at the tenant's cost.
Emergency exception	Not addressed by statute
Time-of-day restrictions	Not addressed by statute

Cite this page: "Landlord Atlas, Arkansas Landlord Entry Notice Laws (verified July 10, 2026), landlordatlas.com/laws/entry-notice/arkansas/" — free to cite and quote with a link (how these records are verified). Every figure above is cited to the Arkansas statute in the citations section below.

Notes and caveats

Aggregators quoting '24 hours' are wrong — No notice period of any length exists in any Arkansas statute — the empty answer means no requirement, not missing data. This is the same class of error as the Tennessee 24-hour overstatement, with even less textual basis.
Arkansas has an entry statute — it just gives tenants nothing — 18-17-602 exists, but it is a tenant-obligation consent statute: the tenant 'shall not unreasonably withhold consent' to entry for the listed purposes. It grants no notice protection at all.
Emergency entry is deliberately unresolved — The emergency-exception answer reads as not addressed by statute rather than yes or no: no general statutory emergency-entry right exists (asserting one would overstate the law), but two narrow provisions assume emergency entry — 18-17-702(a) (curing the tenant's own health/safety noncompliance 'as promptly as conditions require in case of emergency') and 18-17-502(c)(2)(A) (since 2021, a landlord is DEEMED COMPLIANT with the implied habitability standards if a defect went unfixed 'because the tenant refused the landlord entry').
Not even 'reasonable times' — 18-17-602 omits even the 'at reasonable times' phrase found in URLTA states, so there is no time-of-day restriction to report.
Title trap on 18-17-705 — Enacted in 2007 titled 'Landlord and tenant remedies for abuse of access,' its body has only ever granted LANDLORD remedies; the current code retitles it 'Landlord remedies for refusal of access to rental property.' Older mirrors carrying the 2007 title mislead readers into inferring a tenant remedy that does not exist.
Housekeeping — Both 18-17-602 and 18-17-705 are unamended since Acts 2007, No. 1004.

Common questions: Arkansas entry notice

Each answer is the verified value from the table above, restated as a direct answer. Free to quote with a link to this page.

How many hours' notice must a landlord give before entering in Arkansas?: No fixed statutory period (see notice standard). Arkansas requires no advance notice of any length before a landlord enters. The state does have an entry statute, but A.C.A. 18-17-602(a) only provides that a tenant 'shall not unreasonably withhold consent' to landlord entry for the listed purposes.
What reasons allow a landlord to enter a rental in Arkansas?: A tenant may not unreasonably withhold consent to entry for inspections, necessary or agreed repairs and improvements, necessary or agreed services, investigating possible rule or lease violations, investigating possible criminal activity, or showings to prospective or actual purchasers, mortgagees, tenants, workers, or contractors (A.C.A. 18-17-602(a)).
Can a landlord enter without notice in an emergency in Arkansas?: Not addressed by statute.
Are there time-of-day limits on when a landlord can enter in Arkansas?: Not addressed by statute.

Statute citations

A.C.A. § 18-17-602 (Access; unamended since Acts 2007, No. 1004) (a)-(b) (verified 2026) Unofficial mirror
A.C.A. § 18-17-705 (Landlord remedies for refusal of access — injunction without bond, termination, actual damages, attorney's fees; NO tenant remedy exists) (a)-(b) (verified 2026) Unofficial mirror
A.C.A. § 18-17-602 (current-code mirror, current through 2024-03-28) (a) (verified 2026) Unofficial mirror

How this record was verified: Arkansas's official code is published via a LexisNexis portal without stable deep links (GA/TN-class sourcing), so verification pairs two independent current-code mirrors with official arkleg.state.ar.us session-law PDFs: every section that carries an answer here (A.C.A. 18-16-303, 18-16-304, 18-16-305, 18-16-306, 18-17-201, 18-17-202, 18-17-401, 18-17-602, 18-17-704, 18-17-705, 14-16-601) was read verbatim on FindLaw (current through 2024-03-28) and independently re-read on the Justia 2024 Arkansas Code edition , with all reads matching; chapter 18-17 was additionally read in FULL from a mirrored chapter PDF for negative checks (no late-fee, rent-increase, or entry-notice provision exists). Every amendment was traced to the official act text read from arkleg PDFs: Act 559 of 2009 (deposit return 30->60 days; 18-17-501 rewritten to defer to 18-16-301 et seq.), Act 1052 of 2021 (18-17-502 habitability, context), and Act 459 of 2025 (preemption expanded to application fees and deposits). Corroborated against the Arkansas Attorney General's landlord-tenant page (official state source) and Legal Aid of Arkansas. 2025 regular session swept for landlord-tenant acts (only Act 459 touches a figure shown here; SB 501 died in committee 2025-05-05 per the official arkleg bill page); the 2026 fiscal session was appropriations-only.