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

Mississippi never adopted the model-act access rules: 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

Cite this page: "Landlord Atlas, Mississippi Landlord Entry Notice Laws (verified October 2, 2026; held statements carry their own dates), landlordatlas.com/laws/entry-notice/mississippi/" — 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 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), which the eviction summons in 89-8-35(2) repeats to the tenant. 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.
• '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.

Statements held at an earlier date

Mississippi publishes its code only on a site whose terms do not allow automated reading, so this page is verified on the acts the legislature publishes and on court and agency sources. The statement below rests on text only the code prints. It keeps the date it was last verified; every other statement on this page was confirmed on October 2, 2026 ( how held statements work).

• The chapter runs from § 89-8-1 to § 89-8-45, and nothing in it sets a rule for a landlord's entry. Miss. Code Ann. Title 89, chapter 8 (the list of sections) · last verified July 11, 2026

Citations

• Miss. Code Ann. § 89-8-23 (verified 2026) Official source
• Miss. Code Ann. § 89-8-25 (verified 2026) Official source
• 2025 SB 2328 (Laws 2025, ch. 460), amending 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, Consumer Guide: The Landlord-Tenant Relationship (text of the Residential Landlord and Tenant Act as amended through the 2018 Legislative Session) (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. September 5, 2026 addendum: the decisive figures touched by the 2025-2026 enactments reviewed that day were re-read on the official host — §§ 89-8-31, 89-8-35 and 89-8-39 (the State's official code service, current with the 2026 Regular Session) and the enrolled 2025 SB 2328 on billstatus.ls.state.ms.us; the earlier reads stand as recorded. October 2026: the deposit, rent increase, late fee and entry answers were read again on the Legislature's own texts on billstatus.ls.state.ms.us (the enrolled 2018 SB 2473, 2022 SB 2461, 2025 SB 2328 and 2025 HB 1200; the 2024 bill that reprints every section of chapter 89-8; 2016 SB 2799 for section 21-17-5 and 2012 HB 515 for section 19-3-40; and the per-session index of code sections amended, 2001 to 2026), on the Attorney General's guide, and, for rent regulation, in the codes of Jackson, Gulfport, Southaven, Hattiesburg, Biloxi, Olive Branch, Tupelo and Meridian; those reads close the section 89-8-13, 89-8-19 and 21-17-5 reads left open in July. The code compilation itself was not opened for that reading, and one sentence, which quoted the history line of section 89-8-21, could be read only there; it now states what the Legislature's index of amended sections shows (no enacted measure from 2001 to 2026). One statement, the chapter's list of sections, is held and is listed with the date it was last verified. Every other deposit, rent increase, late fee and entry statement was confirmed on October 2, 2026.