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?

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SB 406 (2026), Act 715 — 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 August 16, 2026).

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; official O.C.G.A. portal) · Verified October 2, 2026, 1 statement held at an earlier date

The lease governs: landlords should reserve entry rights in writing and follow whatever notice the lease promises. The Department of Community Affairs' handbook notes that most leases let the landlord have reasonable access after giving notice, and that a tenant whose lease gives no right of entry may refuse entry except in an emergency.

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 comes from the lease. The Department of Community Affairs' Georgia Landlord-Tenant Handbook (revised August 29, 2024) states that the lease establishes when a landlord may enter, and that a tenant whose lease gives the landlord no right to enter may refuse entry except in cases of emergency. The landlord's duty to keep the premises in repair (O.C.G.A. 44-7-13) sets no entry or notice rule of its own.
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 October 2, 2026; held statements carry their own dates), landlordatlas.com/laws/entry-notice/georgia/" — 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

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 Georgia statute creates an emergency exception. The Department of Community Affairs' handbook states that a tenant whose lease gives the landlord no right to enter may refuse entry except in cases of emergency; that is the agency's statement, not a statute.
Lease drafting is doing all the work — Because no statute supplies an entry rule, entry rights and notice terms come from the lease, apart from the emergency case the Department of Community Affairs' handbook describes — put them in writing.

Common questions: Georgia entry notice

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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.

Statements held at an earlier date

Georgia 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).

No Georgia statute requires advance notice before a landlord's entry, and none sets a notice period for a rent increase. O.C.G.A. Title 44, chapter 7, article 1 (the list of sections) · last verified July 8, 2026

Citations

O.C.G.A. Title 44, Chapter 7 (no entry-notice statute exists; official O.C.G.A. portal) (verified 2026) Official source

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 (Act 392 of 2024) 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. September 5, 2026 addendum: the decisive figures touched by the 2025-2026 enactments reviewed that day were re-read on the official host — § 44-7-30.1 and § 44-7-7 through the enrolled acts on gov.georgia.gov and the official reporter text of Alexander v. Steining on static.case.law; the earlier reads stand as recorded. October 2026: the deposit, rent increase, late fee and entry answers were read again on the acts the General Assembly publishes on legis.ga.gov (the 2024 Safe at Home Act, HB 404, Act 392; 2018 HB 834 for sections 44-7-33 to 44-7-35; 2006 HB 1273 for section 44-7-31; 2007 SB 94 for section 44-7-30; 2003 SB 105 for section 13-6-15), on the signed acts on gov.georgia.gov, on the Department of Community Affairs' Georgia Landlord-Tenant Handbook (revised August 29, 2024) and on opinions of the Court of Appeals. The code itself was not opened for that reading, and no act since 2001 sets out sections 44-7-19, 44-7-32 or 44-7-36. 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 and entry pages was confirmed on October 2, 2026.