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

No fixed statutory period (see notice standard). Georgia has no statute requiring advance notice before landlord entry, and no statute granting or limiting a general right of entry to occupied premises. The lease controls.

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

As provided in the lease. Georgia landlord-tenant statutes do not enumerate permitted entry reasons for residential rentals.

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

Verified July 8, 2026 All Georgia 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:

SB 406 (2026), Ga. L. 2026, p. 988 — the Georgia Property Owners' Bill of Rights Act — Already SIGNED but not yet effective: on January 1, 2027, new O.C.G.A. 44-7-50(e) lets a court, on motion and after a hearing, make all records of a dispossessory proceeding unavailable to the public when the tenant won the case, when the tenant has paid the judgment in full including interest and costs, or when seven years have passed since a dismissal or a paid-in-full judgment. The landlord may still pursue any amounts owed in a separate action or through collections. The rest of the act concerns homeowners' and property owners' associations, not landlord-tenant law.Status: Signed 2026; section 9 makes the dispossessory-records provision effective January 1, 2027 (only the association attorney-fee section took effect July 1, 2026). The answers shown do not yet reflect it. (checked 2026-08-16).

Georgia has no statute setting how much notice a landlord must give before entering a rental unit — no 24-hour rule, no 'reasonable notice' standard, nothing.

Cited to O.C.G.A. Title 44, Chapter 7 (no entry-notice statute exists; chapter index confirms absence) · Verified July 8, 2026

The lease governs: landlords should reserve entry rights in writing and follow whatever notice the lease promises, because absent a reserved right the tenant's exclusive possession means an uninvited entry can amount to trespass. In practice Georgia landlords commonly use 24 hours' notice as a professional norm, but that is convention, not law.

Georgia entry notice at a glance

Advance notice required	No fixed statutory period (see notice standard)
Notice standard	Georgia has no statute requiring advance notice before landlord entry, and no statute granting or limiting a general right of entry to occupied premises. The lease controls. A landlord's right to enter for inspections, repairs, or showings exists only to the extent the lease reserves it. Entry rights are otherwise constrained by the tenant's right of possession (an unreserved entry can constitute trespass) and by O.C.G.A. 44-7-14's repair duties, which presuppose access arrangements.
Permitted reasons	As provided in the lease. Georgia landlord-tenant statutes do not enumerate permitted entry reasons for residential rentals.
Emergency exception	Not addressed by statute
Time-of-day restrictions	Not addressed by statute

Cite this page: "Landlord Atlas, Georgia Landlord Entry Notice Laws (verified July 8, 2026), landlordatlas.com/laws/entry-notice/georgia/" — free to cite and quote with a link (how these records are verified). Every figure above is cited to the Georgia statute in the citations section below.

Notes and caveats

The empty fields mean no statute exists — the lease governs — The advance-notice answer is empty and the standard describes a genuine statutory absence (the same convention used on the Texas page): Georgia law sets no entry-notice rule at all, so the lease controls.
Even the emergency exception is non-statutory — The answer reads as not addressed by statute rather than yes because no statute creates one — emergency entry is defended in Georgia on common-law necessity or lease grounds, and asserting a statutory exception would overstate the law.
Lease drafting is doing all the work — Because the statute supplies nothing, entry rights and notice terms exist only as far as the lease reserves them — put them in writing.

Common questions: Georgia 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 Georgia?: No fixed statutory period (see notice standard). Georgia has no statute requiring advance notice before landlord entry, and no statute granting or limiting a general right of entry to occupied premises. The lease controls.
What reasons allow a landlord to enter a rental in Georgia?: As provided in the lease. Georgia landlord-tenant statutes do not enumerate permitted entry reasons for residential rentals.
Can a landlord enter without notice in an emergency in Georgia?: Not addressed by statute.
Are there time-of-day limits on when a landlord can enter in Georgia?: Not addressed by statute.

Statute citations

O.C.G.A. Title 44, Chapter 7 (no entry-notice statute exists; chapter index confirms absence) (verified 2026) Unofficial mirror

How this record was verified: Direct read of statute text: O.C.G.A. 44-7-30.1, 44-7-34, 44-7-35, 44-7-36, 44-7-7, and 44-7-19 read in full from the 2024 Code of Georgia (Justia mirror of the official code, which is not deep-linkable on the official legis.ga.gov LexisNexis portal), cross-checked against the official Georgia General Assembly HB 404 (2024 Ga. Laws 392) bill record on legis.ga.gov and the Georgia Appleseed / magistrate-judge bench card summarizing the Safe at Home Act. 44-7-31, 44-7-32, and 44-7-33 mechanics confirmed across the code mirror section listing and multiple consistent secondary sources.