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

No fixed statutory period (see notice standard). No Louisiana statute or Civil Code article requires any advance notice before a landlord enters, and none sets out a general right of entry: entry is governed by the lease. (The only statutory entries are the repair right described below and a landowner's right to remove the lock on, and re-lock, a factory-built home its lessee has abandoned, R.S. 9:3259.3(C)(1).) The Civil Code runs the other way by default, obliging the lessor to protect the lessee's peaceful possession.

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

Whatever the lease provides — repairs, inspections, showings — bounded by the lessee's right of peaceful possession. On top of that, the lessee must allow repairs that cannot be postponed until the end of the lease.

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

Verified October 1, 2026 Correction October 2, 2026 All Louisiana topics →

Louisiana has no statute requiring a landlord to give any advance notice — 24 hours or otherwise — before entering a rental unit; entry rights come from the lease.

Cited to La. Civ. Code art. 2693 and 2 more cited sources · Verified October 1, 2026

The Civil Code approaches the question from the opposite direction: the lessor owes the lessee peaceful possession for the whole lease (article 2682), so a landlord entering without the tenant's consent or lease authority is breaching the lease rather than exercising a right. The one entry the tenant must tolerate by statute is for repairs that cannot be postponed until the end of the lease — the landlord may make those even over the tenant's objection and inconvenience, and the tenant's remedy is a rent reduction or abatement, or in serious cases dissolution of the lease, not refusal. Practically, Louisiana landlords should put an entry clause in the lease and give reasonable notice anyway, because outside urgent repairs an uninvited entry invites a peaceful-possession claim.

Louisiana entry notice at a glance

Advance notice required	No fixed statutory period (see notice standard)
Notice standard	No Louisiana statute or Civil Code article requires any advance notice before a landlord enters, and none sets out a general right of entry: entry is governed by the lease. (The only statutory entries are the repair right described below and a landowner's right to remove the lock on, and re-lock, a factory-built home its lessee has abandoned, R.S. 9:3259.3(C)(1).) The Civil Code runs the other way by default, obliging the lessor to protect the lessee's peaceful possession. That framework favors the tenant: the lessor is bound to protect the lessee's peaceful possession for the duration of the lease (art. 2682(3)), so non-consensual entry without lease authority breaches that obligation. The one statutory intrusion the lessee must tolerate is art. 2693: if the thing requires a repair that cannot be postponed until the end of the lease, the lessor has the right to make it even over the lessee's inconvenience or loss of use, with the lessee's remedy being rent reduction or abatement, or dissolution, depending on the circumstances.
Permitted reasons	Whatever the lease provides — repairs, inspections, showings — bounded by the lessee's right of peaceful possession. On top of that, the lessee must allow repairs that cannot be postponed until the end of the lease. The lease-based reasons are bounded by the lessee's right of peaceful possession (art. 2682(3)). The statutory right to make repairs that cannot be postponed until the end of the lease is art. 2693, and the lessee is obliged to allow them (art. 2693; AG guide, Obligations of the Tenant).
Emergency exception	Not addressed by statute
Time-of-day restrictions	Not addressed by statute

Cite this page: "Landlord Atlas, Louisiana Landlord Entry Notice Laws (verified October 1, 2026), landlordatlas.com/laws/entry-notice/louisiana/" — 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 '24 hours' you see online is guidance, never law — No entry-notice statute exists — that is why the hours field is blank. The '24 hours' figure circulating on tenant-help and AI-generated sites is practice guidance, not a Louisiana legal requirement.
'No statutory notice' does not mean 'unrestricted entry' — The two are different things: with no notice statute, entry is governed by the lease, bounded by the lessee's right of peaceful possession described above — not left unregulated.
Why the emergency field is blank — No official source articulates an emergency-entry rule for Louisiana, so this answer is not shown as a bare 'yes.' Art. 2693's right to make a repair that cannot be postponed until the end of the lease is the functional analog for urgent situations, and it is carried in the entry standard and permitted reasons instead.
Art. 2693 is a repair-tolerance rule, not a 'right of access' — It should not be described in URLTA vocabulary ('right of access,' 'entry notice'): it is a repair-tolerance rule with a rent-abatement counterweight.
The Attorney General's guide is silent on entry notice — The Attorney General's guide says nothing about entry notice. The absence of a notice requirement rests on the Civil Code's lease title and the lease sections of Title 9; the guide is cited for the tenant's duty to allow repairs that cannot be postponed.

Common questions: Louisiana 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 Louisiana?: No fixed statutory period (see notice standard). No Louisiana statute or Civil Code article requires any advance notice before a landlord enters, and none sets out a general right of entry: entry is governed by the lease. (The only statutory entries are the repair right described below and a landowner's right to remove the lock on, and re-lock, a factory-built home its lessee has abandoned, R.S. 9:3259.3(C)(1).) The Civil Code runs the other way by default, obliging the lessor to protect the lessee's peaceful possession.
What reasons allow a landlord to enter a rental in Louisiana?: Whatever the lease provides — repairs, inspections, showings — bounded by the lessee's right of peaceful possession. On top of that, the lessee must allow repairs that cannot be postponed until the end of the lease.
Can a landlord enter without notice in an emergency in Louisiana?: Not addressed by statute.
Are there time-of-day limits on when a landlord can enter in Louisiana?: Not addressed by statute.

Changes since last full verification

The Verified date above (October 1, 2026) marks the last time every figure on this page was verified end-to-end against official sources. The changes below were published since then, each verified against the official source it names (what these dates mean).

Correction, October 2, 2026 — Louisiana (correction): the deposit page had shown the return deadline as 30 days. The statute says within one month after the lease terminates (R.S. 9:3251(A)); the page and the deposit letter tool now show one month, and the tool counts a calendar month where it had added 30 days. The eviction page had shown the deadline for an appeal that suspends the judgment as 1 day; the article says within twenty-four hours of the judgment of eviction (C.C.P. art. 4735), and the page now shows 24 hours. The rent increase page had said no city or parish regulates rents: New Orleans requires units created under its inclusionary zoning program to be offered at an affordable rent (New Orleans Code sections 26-641 and 26-646), and the codes of nine other cities and parishes contain no rent regulation. Also corrected: notice to end the lease of a home must be in writing whether or not the lease itself is written (C.C. art. 2729); the 30-day notice in art. 2728 applies to a lease with no fixed term that runs by a period longer than a month, and a fixed-term lease ends without notice (art. 2720); the owner of land with three or more lots rented for factory-built homes may collect a $25 fee when lot rent is 60 days late and notice has gone to the home's secured parties (R.S. 9:3259.1(D)); taking possession without a judgment after an abandonment still requires the notice to vacate (C.C.P. art. 4731(B)); the self-help repossession statute sometimes cited against landlords belongs to the law on leases of movables (R.S. 9:3329); a court's power to refuse to dissolve a lease rests on C.C. arts. 2013 and 2014; the tenant's duty to allow urgent repairs is art. 2693. Comparisons with other states that no official source supports were removed.

Citations

La. Civ. Code art. 2693 (verified 2026) Official source
La. Civ. Code art. 2682 · (3) (verified 2026) Official source
La. AG, 'A Guide to Louisiana Landlord & Tenant Laws' (no entry-notice provision; tenant must allow repairs that cannot be postponed) · Obligations of the Tenant; Maintenance & Repairs (verified 2026) Official source

How this record was verified: Direct read of statute text on the official Louisiana Legislature site (legis.la.gov Law.aspx section pages) for La. R.S. 9:3251-3254 and 9:3258 and Civil Code arts. 2005, 2011, 2012, 2680-2683, 2693, 2695, 2727, and 2728. Enrolled text of 2026 Act No. 63 (HB 292) read in full from the legislature's document server, plus the bill-status page confirming signature 5/11/2026 and 8/1/2026 effective date. Cross-checked against the Louisiana Attorney General's official guide 'A Guide to Louisiana Landlord & Tenant Laws' (La. DOJ Consumer Protection Section), noting that the guide's deposit-penalty figure ($200/actual damages) is stale — superseded by Acts 2018, No. 416. The other 2026 acts on leases (Act 64 on early termination, Act 240 on the Civil Code's lease title, Acts 40 and 113 on legal holidays, Act 127 on notice of a justice of the peace court's judgment and Act 950 on the East Baton Rouge justice courts) change no figure on the deposit, rent increase, late fee or entry pages. September 5, 2026 addendum: the decisive figures touched by the 2025-2026 enactments reviewed that day were re-read on the official host — Civil Code art. 2701, Acts 2026 No. 382 and No. 765, and R.S. 51:911.26 and 51:911.41 on legis.la.gov; the earlier reads stand as recorded. On October 1, 2026 every provision the deposit, rent increase, late fee, entry and eviction answers rest on was read again on legis.la.gov, whose text includes the acts of the 2026 Regular Session: R.S. 9:3201 to 9:3261.2, the Civil Code's lease title (arts. 2668 to 2729) and arts. 2000 to 2014, Code of Civil Procedure arts. 4701 to 4735, 4832 to 4925, 5001 to 5003 and 5059, R.S. 1:55 and La. Const. art. VI, § 9, with the 2025 and 2026 act lists and, for rent regulation, the codes of New Orleans, Baton Rouge and East Baton Rouge Parish, Shreveport, Jefferson Parish, Lafayette, Kenner, Lake Charles, Bossier City, Monroe and Alexandria.