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

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Mississippi has no statute requiring landlords to give any notice before entering a rental unit — the Residential Landlord and Tenant Act contains no entry provision of any kind, so access rights are governed entirely by the lease.

Mississippi never adopted the model-act access rules that most states have: there is no 24-hour or 48-hour figure to quote, no list of permitted entry reasons, and no statutory emergency exception, and a landlord entering without authority in the lease risks liability for common-law trespass. The only entry-adjacent rules in the statute run in the tenant's favor at the end of a tenancy: until a court-ordered move-out date an evicted tenant keeps the same access to the premises the lease allowed, and after a warrant of removal is executed the landlord must give the former tenant reasonable access for 72 hours to remove personal property, including a manufactured home (Miss. Code Ann. 89-8-39). Any entry-notice number attributed to Mississippi by a 50-state chart is imported from another state.

Mississippi entry notice at a glance

Advance notice required	No fixed statutory period (see notice standard)
Notice standard	No Mississippi statute requires notice — or addresses landlord entry at all. The Residential Landlord and Tenant Act never adopted the URLTA access article: no notice period, no permitted-reasons list, no emergency provision, no time-of-day rule anywhere in the chapter. Entry rights come entirely from the lease, and entry without lease authority risks common-law trespass liability.
Permitted reasons	Not addressed by statute
Emergency exception	Not addressed by statute
Time-of-day restrictions	Not addressed by statute

Notes and caveats

notice_hours null — verified negative: every section of the current chapter swept (AG official PDF for the pre-2022 sections; SB 2461 (2022), SB 2328 (2025) and HB 1200 (2025) enrolled texts for everything amended or created since); the only 'access' language in the chapter is the post-judgment tenant access of 89-8-39(1) and (3). 89-8-23 (landlord duties) and 89-8-25 (tenant duties) were read in full — no access clause on either side. emergency_exception null rather than true: with no statutory entry framework there is nothing to except from; emergency entry is a lease/common-law necessity question, unlike TX where adjacent statutes imply entry rights. Page copy must distinguish 'no statutory notice' from 'unrestricted entry' (trespass and the covenant of quiet enjoyment still apply). The 72-hour post-warrant access window was strengthened in 2025: SB 2328 also provides that a warrant of removal is not executed by door-posting — law enforcement must physically remove occupants and put the landlord in possession.

Statute citations

Miss. Code Ann. § 89-8-23 (landlord duties — contains no entry provision) Official source
Miss. Code Ann. § 89-8-25 (tenant duties — contains no access-allowance duty) Official source
Miss. Code Ann. § 89-8-39 (post-eviction access rules, the chapter's only access provisions) (1), (3) Official source
MS Attorney General, Residential Landlord and Tenant Act guide (full statutory text) Official source

How this record was verified: Mississippi's official code compilation is LexisNexis-published and JS-rendered (lexisnexis.com/hottopics/mscode redirects to advance.lexis.com), so verification ran on official fetchable state sources reconciled with mirrors: enrolled session-law texts on the Legislature's billstatus.ls.state.ms.us (SB 2461/Laws 2022 ch. 501 eff. 2022-04-21; SB 2328/Laws 2025 ch. 460 eff. 2025-04-10; HB 1200/Laws 2025 ch. 474 eff. 2025-07-01; SB 2473/Laws 2018 ch. 446 eff. 2018-07-01) plus the MS Attorney General's consumer-guide PDF reproducing the full pre-2022 act text, each load-bearing figure reconciled verbatim against Justia (2025 code edition) and FindLaw (current through 2025-01-01): 45-day deposit return with its three-element trigger and $200 bad-faith penalty (89-8-21, unamended since Laws 1991 ch. 478 — three matching reads), 30-day month-to-month and 7-day week-to-week termination notice (89-8-19, three reads), 3-day nonpayment termination notice and 14-day cure notice (89-8-13, official + mirror), rent-definition late-fee clause (89-8-7(1)(k), official + AG PDF), and the municipal/county rent-regulation preemption clauses (21-17-5(2)(h) and 19-3-40(3)(g), FindLaw + Justia matching verbatim). Negative checks (no deposit cap, no interest/escrow, no entry statute, no late-fee statute, no rent-increase-notice statute) were run against the complete current chapter assembled from the AG PDF (pre-2022 sections) and all amending enrolled acts. Legislature per-section bill indexes swept for every 89-8 section, 2018-2026, and the full 2026 all-measures index searched: no live bills; HB 442, HB 499 and SB 2012 (2026) all died in committee 2026-02-03. A same-day (2026-07-11) in-app browser session reached the official Lexis compilation's search results, sight-confirming the chapter's current compiled span (§§ 89-8-1 — 89-8-45), the verbatim opening text of 89-8-21(1)-(2), and 89-8-13's post-2022 structure including the (5)(a) nonpayment clause; the full-text section pages are CAPTCHA-gated, so complete Lexis sight-reads of 89-8-21/-13/-19 and the 21-17-5(2)(h) lettering remain open carry-forwards, with the encoding resting on the reconciled official sources above.