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

No fixed statutory period (see notice standard). Colorado has no general entry-notice statute for standard residential rentals. Entry rights and the notice a landlord must give are left to the lease, so the lease's entry clause is what governs.

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

Colorado has no statutory list of permitted entry purposes, so the lease sets what a landlord may enter for.

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

Verified July 9, 2026 All Colorado topics →

Legislative changes ahead — not yet in force. The rules on this page reflect the law in force today. The following measure would change it:

SB26-054 (2026) — Already CHAPTERED: on and after January 1, 2027, post-closing occupancy agreements (home-seller rent-backs) become exempt from the two-month security deposit cap of § 38-12-102.5. No other change to the cap.Status: Signed 2026-04-20; the act took effect August 12, 2026, and the exemption itself operates on and after January 1, 2027 per the amended statute's own text. The figures shown do not yet reflect it. (checked 2026-08-12).

Colorado has no general statute requiring advance notice before a landlord enters a rental home — notice periods, purposes, and timing are governed by the lease, so a well-drafted entry clause matters more here than in most states.

Cited to C.R.S. 38-12-1004 (current-code mirror) (1) and 1 more Colorado statute · Verified July 9, 2026

The exceptions are narrow and specific: bed-bug inspections and treatments require at least 48 hours' written or electronic notice (the lease can set a different minimum, and tenants may not unreasonably refuse access), and entry to make warranty-of-habitability repairs runs on the tenant's own permission, which shortens the landlord's repair deadline to 96 hours when granted with the repair request. Emergency entry rests on common law and lease terms rather than any statutory carve-out. Landlords should not import the 24- or 48-hour general rules of neighboring states — in Colorado, outside bed bugs, the statute book is silent.

Colorado entry notice at a glance

Advance notice required	No fixed statutory period (see notice standard)
Notice standard	Colorado has no general entry-notice statute for standard residential rentals. Entry rights and the notice a landlord must give are left to the lease, so the lease's entry clause is what governs. The only statutory notice period anywhere in Colorado's residential landlord-tenant law (Title 38, Article 12) is the bed-bug provision, C.R.S. 38-12-1004(1), requiring reasonable written or electronic notice at least 48 HOURS before entry for bed-bug inspection or treatment (a rental agreement may set a different minimum, and the tenant may not unreasonably deny access). Warranty-of-habitability repairs work through tenant-granted permission: the landlord's remediation clock drops to 96 hours only when the tenant's notice of the condition includes permission to enter (38-12-503(2)(b)(II)).
Permitted reasons	Colorado has no statutory list of permitted entry purposes, so the lease sets what a landlord may enter for. On top of whatever the lease provides, statute supplies bed-bug inspection and treatment access (38-12-1004) and habitability-repair entry with tenant permission (38-12-503).
Emergency exception	Not addressed by statute
Time-of-day restrictions	Not addressed by statute

Cite this page: "Landlord Atlas, Colorado Landlord Entry Notice Laws (verified July 9, 2026), landlordatlas.com/laws/entry-notice/colorado/" — free to cite and quote with a link (how these records are verified). Every figure above is cited to the Colorado statute in the citations section below.

Notes and caveats

Blank doesn't mean a notice rule exists — it means there isn't one — The advance-notice answer shows no fixed statutory period because Colorado has no general entry-notice requirement. The 48-hour figure belongs ONLY to bed-bug entry under 38-12-1004 and must not be generalized to other entries.
Bed bugs: 48 hours — 'forty-eight hours' verbatim — The statute says 'forty-eight hours' in so many words. Any 47-hour figure circulating for Colorado bed-bug entry is wrong.
No statutory emergency exception either — The emergency-exception answer is likewise not addressed by statute because no statutory emergency-entry provision exists — asserting one would overstate the law.
The silence runs across the whole article — No part of Title 38, Article 12 — parts 1, 2-2.5, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 10, and 12-14 — imposes a general entry-notice rule.
In practice, the lease and local codes control — Entry rights are governed by the lease, and local codes may add rules — local ordinances are outside the scope of this page.

Common questions: Colorado 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 Colorado?: No fixed statutory period (see notice standard). Colorado has no general entry-notice statute for standard residential rentals. Entry rights and the notice a landlord must give are left to the lease, so the lease's entry clause is what governs.
What reasons allow a landlord to enter a rental in Colorado?: Colorado has no statutory list of permitted entry purposes, so the lease sets what a landlord may enter for.
Can a landlord enter without notice in an emergency in Colorado?: Not addressed by statute.
Are there time-of-day limits on when a landlord can enter in Colorado?: Not addressed by statute.

Statute citations

C.R.S. 38-12-1004 (current-code mirror) (1) (verified 2026) Unofficial mirror
HB19-1328 (official enrolled act creating the bed-bug access rules, eff. 2020-01-01) (verified 2026) Official source

How this record was verified: Colorado's official CRS text is published via LexisNexis without stable deep links (GA-class sourcing situation), so verification pairs official session-law sources with current code mirrors: the HB25-1249 enrolled act read verbatim from the official leg.colorado.gov PDF (full text extracted) and re-confirmed against the official bill-page summary (independent reads matched on the 30-day return deadline, wrongful-retention standard, 125% presumption, walk-through, and carpet/paint rules, and confirmed NO deposit-cap change); official bill pages read for SB23-184 (deposit cap), SB21-173 (late fees), HB21-1121 (rent-increase notice/frequency), HB23-1068 (pet deposits), HB23-1115 (rent-control repeal — died), HB25-1092 and HB26-1047 (died), and SB26-054 (PCOA exemption; dates corrected 2026-08-12 against the chaptered session law: act effective 2026-08-12, exemption operative on and after 2027-01-01). Statute text quoted from the colorado.public.law and FindLaw mirrors (official: false), with §§ 38-12-105 and 38-12-701 each read twice on the mirror, with both reads matching. Checked 2026-07-09. Supplement 2026-08-23: C.R.S. § 6-1-737 read in full on the official 2026 C.R.S. Title 6 HTML edition published by the Office of Legislative Legal Services (olls.info), cross-checked against the HB25-1090 signed act (leg.colorado.gov PDF, § 2 and § 4 read) — the § 6-1-737(4) fee prohibitions added to late_fees; the eviction citation now references the 2026 C.R.S. download page, the 2025 page having been withdrawn.