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 1 more cited source · Verified October 2, 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 October 2, 2026), landlordatlas.com/laws/entry-notice/indiana/" — 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

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 — Some checklists upgrade the requirement to 'written'. 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). The section was last amended 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 (transient lodging, institutional, employer-tied, fraternal, condominium-owner and cooperative, agricultural and purchase-contract 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)).

Citations

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

How this record was verified: Every section these answers rest on was read on October 2, 2026 in the Indiana General Assembly's own publication of the Indiana Code at iga.in.gov (the 2026 edition, published June 30, 2026, which carries the acts of the 2026 session in each section's history line): IC 32-31-1 (termination notices, the ten-day notice for unpaid rent and its optional form, and the bar on local regulation in IC 32-31-1-20), IC 32-31-2.9 (the tenancies the residential statutes do not reach), IC 32-31-3 (security deposits, read whole), IC 32-31-4 to 32-31-7 (a tenant's property, the entry and lockout rules of IC 32-31-5-6, the 30-day notice of IC 32-31-5-4, emergency possessory orders, tenant duties), IC 32-31-10 to 32-31-12, IC 32-30-2 and 32-30-3 (actions for possession and the order of possession), IC 33-29-2-4, 33-34-3-3 and 33-34-3-15.1 (the courts), IC 36-1-2-23 (what a unit of local government is), IC 24-7-5-5 and IC 16-41-27 (mobile home communities). No 2026 public law amended IC 32-31, IC 32-30-2 or IC 32-30-3, and the 2025 and 2026 editions of those chapters are identical. Senate Enrolled Act 148 of 2020 was read as enrolled, with the General Assembly's roll calls on the veto override (Senate, February 8, 2021; House, February 17, 2021) and its record of the Governor's veto on March 25, 2020. Small Claims Rules 2 and 4 and Appellate Rule 9 were read on the Indiana courts' rules site, each with its effective date, and Gershin v. Demming, 685 N.E.2d 1125 (Ind. Ct. App. 1997), in the reporter. September 5, 2026 addendum: the decisive figures touched by the 2025-2026 enactments reviewed that day were re-read on the official host — IC 32-31-11-3 on iga.in.gov; the earlier reads stand as recorded.