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

No fixed statutory period (see notice standard). Indiana requires only reasonable notice, and it may be given in writing or orally. The statute fixes no number of hours, and entry may happen only at reasonable times.

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

A landlord may enter to inspect, to make necessary or agreed repairs and improvements, to supply agreed services, and to show the unit to buyers, mortgagees, prospective tenants, workers, or contractors. The tenant may not unreasonably withhold consent for any of those purposes.

Can a landlord enter without notice in an emergency in Indiana?

Yes — Indiana recognizes an emergency exception to the entry-notice requirement.

Are there time-of-day limits on when a landlord can enter in Indiana?

Entry is limited to reasonable times. The statute fixes no clock hours (IC 32-31-5-6(g)(3)).

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

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Indiana requires 'reasonable' written or oral notice before a landlord enters a rental — no fixed number of hours — and entry may occur only at reasonable times, for reasons the tenant cannot unreasonably refuse: inspections, necessary or agreed repairs and improvements, supplying services, or showing the unit to buyers, lenders, contractors, or prospective tenants.

Cited to IC 32-31-5-6 (e)-(g) and 2 more Indiana statutes · Verified July 10, 2026

No notice at all is required in an emergency that threatens the safety of the occupants or the landlord's property, and no tenant consent is needed when the landlord enters under a court order or after the tenant has abandoned or surrendered the unit. The statute pairs the entry right with two tenant protections that summaries often drop: a landlord may not abuse the right of entry or use it to harass the tenant, and none of these rules can be waived by lease — a waiver of the chapter is void. The 24- or 48-hour figures and '8 a.m. to 5 p.m. business hours' windows that appear on many Indiana landlord sites are practice conventions or judicial glosses, not statutory text.

Indiana entry notice at a glance

Advance notice required	No fixed statutory period (see notice standard)
Notice standard	Indiana requires only reasonable notice, and it may be given in writing or orally. The statute fixes no number of hours, and entry may happen only at reasonable times. A landlord 'shall give a tenant reasonable written or oral notice of the landlord's intent to enter the dwelling unit' and 'may enter a tenant's dwelling unit only at reasonable times' (IC 32-31-5-6(g)(2)-(3)). No fixed hour period exists in the statute.
Permitted reasons	A landlord may enter to inspect, to make necessary or agreed repairs and improvements, to supply agreed services, and to show the unit to buyers, mortgagees, prospective tenants, workers, or contractors. The tenant may not unreasonably withhold consent for any of those purposes. In full: inspecting the dwelling unit; making necessary or agreed repairs, decorations, alterations, or improvements; supplying necessary or agreed services; and exhibiting the unit to prospective or actual purchasers, mortgagees, tenants, workers, or contractors. For each of those purposes the tenant may not unreasonably withhold consent (IC 32-31-5-6(e)).
Emergency exception	Yes
Time-of-day restrictions	Entry is limited to reasonable times. The statute fixes no clock hours (IC 32-31-5-6(g)(3)).

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

Notes and caveats

An empty notice figure means the statute really only says 'reasonable' — The statutory words are 'reasonable written or oral notice' — nothing firmer can be recorded here (contrast Arizona's statutory 2-day notice). The advance-notice field is empty because the reasonable-notice standard is all the statute gives, not because data is missing.
24-hour and 'business hours' claims are gloss, not law — Many secondary sources state a flat 24-hour (or 48-hour) requirement, and at least one adds 'normal business hours, typically 8 a.m.-5 p.m. weekdays.' None of that appears in IC 32-31-5-6 — 24 hours is a defensible-practice gloss, not law.
Oral notice expressly suffices — Unusual among states — and silently upgraded to 'written' by some checklists. The statute says written or oral.
Where the carve-outs and duties live in the statute — The emergency, court-order, and abandonment carve-outs are subsection (f); the notice and reasonable-times duties plus the anti-harassment rule are subsection (g), added by P.L.115-2007. Abandonment is defined at subsection (b) — unpaid rent plus circumstances indicating surrender — and a lease may not define it differently.
No lease-override escape from the entry rules — Chapter 5 applies only to rental agreements entered into or renewed after June 30, 1999, and waiver is void (IC 32-31-5-1(c)). Unlike the 30-day modification default in IC 32-31-5-4, the entry rules contain no 'unless the lease provides otherwise' escape.
What counts as a dwelling unit — 'Dwelling unit' covers apartments, boarding and rooming house units, manufactured homes and their spaces, and single- or two-family dwellings (IC 32-31-5-3), subject to the article-wide exclusions in IC 32-31-2.9-4 (hotels and motels, institutional, employer-tied, fraternal, condo-owner, and agricultural occupancies).

Common questions: Indiana 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 Indiana?: No fixed statutory period (see notice standard). Indiana requires only reasonable notice, and it may be given in writing or orally. The statute fixes no number of hours, and entry may happen only at reasonable times.
What reasons allow a landlord to enter a rental in Indiana?: A landlord may enter to inspect, to make necessary or agreed repairs and improvements, to supply agreed services, and to show the unit to buyers, mortgagees, prospective tenants, workers, or contractors. The tenant may not unreasonably withhold consent for any of those purposes.
Can a landlord enter without notice in an emergency in Indiana?: Yes — Indiana recognizes an emergency exception to the entry-notice requirement.
Are there time-of-day limits on when a landlord can enter in Indiana?: Entry is limited to reasonable times. The statute fixes no clock hours (IC 32-31-5-6(g)(3)).

Statute citations

IC 32-31-5-6 (e)-(g) (verified 2026) Official source
IC 32-31-5-1 (a), (c) (verified 2026) Official source
IC 32-31-5-6 (mirror) (e)-(g) (verified 2026) Unofficial mirror

How this record was verified: Official-host verbatim reads on the iga.in.gov 2025 code viewer, completed 2026-07-10: IC 32-31-1-20 in full (subsections (a)-(c), the seven-item enumerated list in (c), the void-and-unenforceable clause, and the history line 'As added by P.L.2-2002, SEC.16. Amended by P.L.266-2017, SEC.1; P.L.168-2020, SEC.17; P.L.215-2021, SEC.1'), IC 32-31-1-6, and IC 32-31-1-7 — all matching the previously recorded mirror-verified text with no substantive differences. SEA 148-2020's designation was pinned from the official iga.in.gov bill record: vetoed 2020-03-25, veto overridden Senate 2021-02-08 (Roll Call 64: 30-17) and House 2021-02-17 (Roll Call 159: 67-33), 'Public Law 168' entered 2021-02-17; the code viewer cites it as P.L.168-2020. Original verification basis (2026-07-09): Indiana's official code viewer requires interactive access, so text was verified on two independent code mirrors and reconciled verbatim: FindLaw (codes.findlaw.com, 'current as of January 01, 2026') and Justia's archived official-text PDFs of IC 32-31 chapters 1, 3, and 5 (statecodesfiles.justia.com, 2013 edition, carrying the official 'As added by P.L.' history lines). Sections double-read across both hosts with figures matching verbatim: IC 32-31-3-12, 32-31-3-14, 32-31-3-15, 32-31-3-16 (45-day deadline, forfeiture rule, attorney fees), 32-31-5-4 (30-day modification notice), 32-31-5-6 (entry, all subsections), 32-31-1-1, 32-31-1-2, and 32-31-1-4 (termination-notice periods); 32-31-3-12/-14/-15/-16 were additionally read on law.onecle.com. IC 32-31-1-20 (preemption) was read verbatim on FindLaw (current through Jan. 1, 2026) and in the pre-amendment 2013 official text; the current-text official-host read was completed 2026-07-10 (see above). Scope sections IC 32-31-2.9-1/-3/-4, 32-31-5-1, and 32-31-5-3 read on FindLaw/2013 PDF. 2025-2026 session sweeps (IGA subject list 'Landlords and Tenants', LegiScan) on 2026-07-09 found no enacted change to any answer in this record; 2026 bills SB 127 and HB 1435 died at the session's March 2026 sine die adjournment, and HEA 1001-2026 (signed) addresses zoning/permitting only.