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

Verified July 11, 2026 All Nebraska topics →

Nebraska landlords must give tenants at least 24 hours' written notice before entering a rental unit, and the notice must be delivered to each individual unit, state the purpose of the entry, and give a reasonable window of time when the landlord expects to enter — content requirements added by LB 320 in 2021 that older guides miss.

Entry is limited to reasonable times and to listed purposes (inspections, repairs, services, and showings), with no-notice entry allowed in an emergency or when notice is impracticable, during a tenant's absence of more than seven days, under a court order, or after abandonment or surrender. Until August 28, 2021, the statute required only 'one day's notice' with no writing requirement — so sources quoting a one-day oral-notice rule are quoting law that has been dead since 2021. The statute bars using the access right to harass the tenant and sets no specific clock hours beyond 'reasonable times.'

Nebraska entry notice at a glance

Advance notice required	24 hours
Notice standard	Neb. Rev. Stat. 76-1423(3): except in case of emergency 'or if it is impracticable to do so,' the landlord must give at least twenty-four hours' WRITTEN notice of intent to enter, and the notice must be provided to each individual unit and include the intended purpose for entry and a reasonable period during which the landlord anticipates making entry; entry only at reasonable times. The landlord may not abuse the access right or use it to harass the tenant.
Permitted reasons	The tenant may not unreasonably withhold consent for the landlord to inspect the premises, make necessary or agreed repairs, decorations, alterations, or improvements, supply necessary or agreed services, or exhibit the unit to prospective or actual purchasers, mortgagees, tenants, workmen, or contractors (76-1423(1)). Beyond that, subsection (4) makes the list exhaustive: court order, entry during a tenant absence exceeding seven days 'at times reasonably necessary' (76-1432(2)), or premises the tenant has abandoned or surrendered.
Emergency exception	Yes
Time-of-day restrictions	None by the clock — entry must be 'at reasonable times' only; the statute sets no hour windows.

Notes and caveats

notice_hours encoded as 24 directly — the current statutory phrase is 'at least twenty-four hours' written notice' (76-1423(3)(a)), so the OK-style 'one day' render note is NOT needed here; the batch lead had the amendment direction inverted. Stale-source trap (the headline one): the original 1974 text read 'give the tenant at least one day's notice of his intent to enter' — LB 320 (2021), § 4, introduced by Cavanaugh J. et al., approved by the Governor May 5, 2021, no emergency clause, effective August 28, 2021 (three calendar months after the 2021 session's adjournment; effective date corroborated by Lincoln Journal Star reporting), struck 'one day's' and substituted twenty-four hours' WRITTEN notice plus three content/delivery requirements: per-unit delivery, intended purpose, and a reasonable anticipated-entry period. The old text and new text are both pinned verbatim from the LB 320 slip law. Charts saying 'one day' or '24 hours (oral sufficient)' are stale on two axes. Points for page copy: (1) the 'or if it is impracticable to do so' escape valve on the notice duty survives from the URLTA original and is broader than most states' emergency-only carve-outs — flag it honestly; (2) unlike full URLTA states, the extended-absence entry right (76-1432(2)) triggers after a seven-day absence and is limited to 'times reasonably necessary'; (3) remedies live in 76-1425 (tenant) and cross-provisions rather than in 76-1423 itself. All load-bearing text quadruple-read (official page twice, LB 320 slip, FindLaw mirror current through 2024 matching verbatim).

Statute citations

Neb. Rev. Stat. § 76-1423 (1)-(4) Official source
Laws 2021, LB 320, § 4 (slip law) § 4 Official source
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 76-1432 (2) Official source

How this record was verified: Direct read of statute text on the official Nebraska Legislature site (nebraskalegislature.gov): sections 76-1416, 76-1423, 76-1437, and 13-331 each fetched twice in independent reads (standard and print views) with all load-bearing figures matching verbatim (one-month deposit cap, one-quarter-month pet deposit, 14-day return keyed to the date of termination of the tenancy, lesser-of one month's rent/2x deposit penalty, 24 hours' written entry notice with purpose and anticipated-window content requirements, 30-day/7-day periodic termination notice, rent-control preemption text), and each additionally reconciled character-for-character against the official enacted slip laws downloaded from nebraskalegislature.gov/FloorDocs: LB 433 (2019) and LB 532 (2021) for 76-1416, LB 320 (2021) for 76-1423, LB 266 (2025) for 13-331 — so every amendment claim is pinned from the session law itself. Also read: 76-1408 (exclusions), 76-1414 (rent terms), 76-1432(2) (absence entry), 76-1410(13) (rent definition), 76-1412 (unconscionability), 76-1431(2) (7-day pay-or-quit). FindLaw mirror (current through 2024) matched 76-1423 verbatim; Justia/LegiScan returned 403 and were not needed. Negative checks (no late-fee or grace-period provision, no deposit interest, no escrow/trust account, no rent-increase notice or frequency rule) run twice against the full act text via the legislature's consolidated display (76-1401 through 76-14,111). Pending-bill check 2026-07-11 on official bill pages: LB 17 (fee limits, late-fee cap) indefinitely postponed 2026-04-17; LB 587 (tenant remedies) indefinitely postponed 2026-04-17; LB 980 and LB 469 (2026 eviction-procedure bills) not enacted — no slip law exists; 109th Legislature 2nd session adjourned sine die 2026-04-17.