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

No fixed statutory period (see notice standard). No Mississippi statute requires notice, or addresses landlord entry at all. Entry rights come entirely from the lease, and entry without lease authority risks common-law trespass liability.

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.

Cited to Miss. Code Ann. § 89-8-23 (landlord duties — contains no entry provision) and 3 more Mississippi statutes · Verified July 11, 2026

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. Entry rights come entirely from the lease, and entry without lease authority risks common-law trespass liability. 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.
Permitted reasons	Not addressed by statute
Emergency exception	Not addressed by statute
Time-of-day restrictions	Not addressed by statute

Cite this page: "Landlord Atlas, Mississippi Landlord Entry Notice Laws (verified July 11, 2026), landlordatlas.com/laws/entry-notice/mississippi/" — free to cite and quote with a link (how these records are verified). Every figure above is cited to the Mississippi statute in the citations section below.

Notes and caveats

The empty entry answers are statutory silence, not a gap — The only 'access' language anywhere in the current chapter is the post-judgment tenant access in 89-8-39(1) and (3). That holds across the pre-2022 sections in the Attorney General's official PDF and across the enrolled texts of SB 2461 (2022), SB 2328 (2025) and HB 1200 (2025) for everything amended or created since.
Neither duties section mentions access — 89-8-23 (landlord duties) and 89-8-25 (tenant duties) contain no access clause on either side — no landlord right to enter, no tenant duty to allow entry.
Why the emergency exception is unanswered rather than a yes — With no statutory entry framework there is nothing to except from. Emergency entry in Mississippi is a lease and common-law necessity question — unlike Texas, where adjacent statutes imply entry rights.
'No statutory notice' is not 'unrestricted entry' — Trespass liability and the covenant of quiet enjoyment still apply. A landlord's entry rights rise no higher than what the lease gives.
The 72-hour access window got teeth in 2025 — SB 2328 also provides that a warrant of removal is not executed by law enforcement posting it on the door of the premises: officers must physically remove all occupants and place the landlord in physical possession.

Common questions: Mississippi 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 Mississippi?: No fixed statutory period (see notice standard). No Mississippi statute requires notice, or addresses landlord entry at all. Entry rights come entirely from the lease, and entry without lease authority risks common-law trespass liability.
What reasons allow a landlord to enter a rental in Mississippi?: Not addressed by statute.
Can a landlord enter without notice in an emergency in Mississippi?: Not addressed by statute.
Are there time-of-day limits on when a landlord can enter in Mississippi?: Not addressed by statute.

Statute citations

Miss. Code Ann. § 89-8-23 (landlord duties — contains no entry provision) (verified 2026) Official source
Miss. Code Ann. § 89-8-25 (tenant duties — contains no access-allowance duty) (verified 2026) Official source
Miss. Code Ann. § 89-8-39 (post-eviction access rules, the chapter's only access provisions) (1), (3) (verified 2026) Official source
MS Attorney General, Residential Landlord and Tenant Act guide (full statutory text) (verified 2026) Official source

How this record was verified: Mississippi's official code compilation is LexisNexis-published without directly readable section pages (lexisnexis.com/hottopics/mscode redirects to advance.lexis.com), so verification ran on directly published official 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 figure used here 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) read of the official Lexis compilation's search results sight-confirmed 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; complete Lexis sight-reads of 89-8-21/-13/-19 and the 21-17-5(2)(h) lettering remain pending, with the figures shown here resting on the reconciled official sources above.