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?

Verified October 2, 2026 1 statement held All Arkansas topics →

What did not become law. None of the following is law; 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 passed no landlord-tenant legislation; watch for a refile in the 2027 regular session (Arkansas holds regular sessions in odd years). (checked July 10, 2026).

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 1 more cited source · Verified October 2, 2026, 1 statement held at an earlier date

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. 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 October 2, 2026; held statements carry their own dates), landlordatlas.com/laws/entry-notice/arkansas/" — free to cite and quote with a link (how these records are verified). Everything above is cited 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. Read by that title alone, the section suggests 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.

Statements held at an earlier date

Arkansas publishes its code only on a site whose terms do not allow automated reading, so this page is verified on the acts the legislature publishes and on court and agency sources. The statement below rests on text only the code prints. It keeps the date it was last verified; every other statement on this page was confirmed on October 2, 2026 ( how held statements work).

Outside chapter 17, no Arkansas statute sets a late-fee cap, grace period, lease-clause condition or daily-fee rule; a rent-increase notice or limit, or state rent control; an entry notice period, time-of-day limit, emergency-entry rule or remedy for abusive entry; a civil notice-to-quit that displaces § 18-17-704; a rule on a peaceable lockout or a utility shutoff; or a general bar on retaliation. Ark. Code Title 18, chapter 16 (the list of sections) · last verified July 10, 2026

Citations

A.C.A. § 18-17-602 (Access; unamended since Acts 2007, No. 1004) · (a)-(b) (verified 2026) Official source
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) Official source

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 amended no section of Title 18 or Title 14. September 5, 2026 addendum: the decisive figures touched by the 2025-2026 enactments reviewed that day were re-read on the official host — §§ 14-16-601, 14-54-1409 and 18-17-502 and Acts 2025, No. 459 on arkleg.state.ar.us and the State's official code service; the earlier reads stand as recorded. October 2026: the deposit, rent increase, late fee, entry and eviction answers were read again on the enrolled acts on arkleg.state.ar.us (Act 1004 of 2007 with Acts 311, 482 and 559 of 2009, Act 271 of 2011, Act 315 of 2019 and Act 1052 of 2021 for chapter 18-17; Act 1431 of 2005, Acts 535 and 728 of 2007, Act 1052 of 2021 and Act 414 of 2023 for the unlawful detainer sections; Act 159 of 2017; Act 459 of 2025), with the legislature's register of code sections amended for every session from 2013 to 2026, the court rules and opinions on opinions.arcourts.gov and Attorney General Opinion No. 2025-032. The code itself was not opened for that reading, and no act published there sets out the 1979 deposit sections 18-16-301 to 18-16-304 and 18-16-306. The statements that rest on text only the code prints are held: each is listed with the date it was last verified. Every other statement on the deposit, rent increase, late fee, entry and eviction pages was confirmed on October 2, 2026.