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

No fixed statutory period (see notice standard). South Dakota requires reasonable notice rather than a fixed number of hours, and 24 hours' written notice is presumed reasonable unless the lease sets mutually agreed alternate methods or entry times (SDCL 43-32-32).

What reasons allow a landlord to enter a rental in South Dakota?

South Dakota enumerates no permitted entry purposes. The statute regulates the notice rather than the reasons, requiring only that the notice state the purpose of the intended entry.

Can a landlord enter without notice in an emergency in South Dakota?

Yes — South Dakota recognizes an emergency exception to the entry-notice requirement.

Are there time-of-day limits on when a landlord can enter in South Dakota?

Entry is allowed only at 'reasonable times,' and the notice must offer an entry window falling within normal business hours — unless the lease sets mutually agreed alternate times.

How much notice must a landlord give before entering in South Dakota?

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South Dakota requires landlords to give tenants reasonable notice before entering a rental unit, and 24 hours' written notice is presumed reasonable — but the 24-hour figure is a rebuttable presumption, not a flat statutory minimum, and the lease can set mutually agreed alternate notification methods or entry times.

Cited to SDCL 43-32-32 · Verified July 11, 2026

Except in an emergency or when notice is impracticable, the landlord may enter only at reasonable times, and the notice itself has required contents that most one-line summaries miss: it must state the date or dates of entry, an entry window during normal business hours, the purpose of the entry, and a way for the tenant to ask to reschedule. The statute (SDCL 43-32-32, enacted in 2014) does not restrict what purposes justify entry — it only requires that the purpose be disclosed. Charts that render South Dakota simply as a '24-hour notice state' overstate the rule: 24 hours' written notice is the safe-harbor presumption of reasonableness, not an absolute floor or ceiling.

South Dakota entry notice at a glance

Advance notice required	No fixed statutory period (see notice standard)
Notice standard	South Dakota requires reasonable notice rather than a fixed number of hours, and 24 hours' written notice is presumed reasonable unless the lease sets mutually agreed alternate methods or entry times (SDCL 43-32-32). Except in an emergency or if it is impracticable to do so, the landlord or agent must give reasonable notice of intent to enter and may enter only at reasonable times. The statutory sentence reads: 'Twenty-four hours written notice is presumed to be a reasonable notice unless alternate methods of notification or times for entry are mutually agreed upon between the landlord and tenant in the lease.' The notice must specify the date or dates of entry, a period of time during normal business hours for entry, the purpose of the intended entry, and a means by which the tenant may request to reschedule.
Permitted reasons	South Dakota enumerates no permitted entry purposes. The statute regulates the notice rather than the reasons, requiring only that the notice state the purpose of the intended entry. No other section of ch. 43-32 addresses landlord entry.
Emergency exception	Yes
Time-of-day restrictions	Entry is allowed only at 'reasonable times,' and the notice must offer an entry window falling within normal business hours — unless the lease sets mutually agreed alternate times.

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

Notes and caveats

24 hours is a presumption, not a fixed minimum — the statute's operative command is 'reasonable notice'; 24 hours' written notice is only 'presumed to be a reasonable notice,' and even that presumption yields to alternate notification methods or entry times mutually agreed in the lease. Read South Dakota as a reasonable-notice state with a 24-hour written safe harbor, not as a bare '24 hours.'
Vintage correction — the section dates from 2014, not 2016 — 43-32-32 was enacted as SL 2014, ch 191, § 4; some leads suggest 2016. It has never been amended.
The exception is double-barreled — notice is excused 'in case of an emergency' or 'if it is impracticable' to give it — broader than a pure emergency exception, and the same URLTA-style phrasing as Montana's 70-24-312.
The notice has required contents most summaries miss — it must state the date or dates of entry, a period of time during normal business hours for entry, the purpose of the intended entry, and a means by which the tenant may request to reschedule. That combination is unusual among presumed-reasonable states and is decisive for anyone building an entry-notice template.
No paired remedy — no statutory remedy section pairs with 43-32-32; an entry violation sounds in general lease and tort remedies.
No other entry statute exists — nothing else in ch. 43-32, in its section index or in its text, addresses landlord entry.

Common questions: South Dakota 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 South Dakota?: No fixed statutory period (see notice standard). South Dakota requires reasonable notice rather than a fixed number of hours, and 24 hours' written notice is presumed reasonable unless the lease sets mutually agreed alternate methods or entry times (SDCL 43-32-32).
What reasons allow a landlord to enter a rental in South Dakota?: South Dakota enumerates no permitted entry purposes. The statute regulates the notice rather than the reasons, requiring only that the notice state the purpose of the intended entry.
Can a landlord enter without notice in an emergency in South Dakota?: Yes — South Dakota recognizes an emergency exception to the entry-notice requirement.
Are there time-of-day limits on when a landlord can enter in South Dakota?: Entry is allowed only at 'reasonable times,' and the notice must offer an entry window falling within normal business hours — unless the lease sets mutually agreed alternate times.

Statute citations

SDCL 43-32-32 (verified 2026) Official source

How this record was verified: Direct read of statute text served by the official South Dakota Legislature site (sdlegislature.gov, SDLRC codified laws): the complete text of every section of SDCL chapter 43-32 (43-32-1 through 43-32-37, including all decimal sections and the repealed 43-32-7) read via the site's chapter endpoint, with every section these answers rest on (43-32-6.1, 43-32-24, 43-32-13, 43-32-32, 43-32-12, 43-32-15) read a second, independent time via the per-section endpoint — all figures matched verbatim across reads (one month's rent cap; twenty-one days / forty-five days deposit clocks; $200 punitive ceiling; thirty-day modification notice with fifteen-day tenant termination right; twenty-four-hour written-notice entry presumption). SDCL 6-1-13 and 6-1-12 (rent-control preemption) double-read the same way. The 2026 amendment to 43-32-24 additionally pinned character-for-character from the official enrolled 2026 SB 4 (SL 2026, ch 179) and its introduced strike/underline version via the Legislature's document API; bill history from the official action log (signed by the Governor 2026-02-12; no effective-date clause, so effective 2026-07-01 under SDCL 2-14-16, read from the official site). Session sweeps run against the official bill lists: 2026 regular session (666 bills — SB 4 enacted and incorporated; HB 1231 on assistance-animal documentation tabled 2026-02-11, dead), 2025 regular session (571 bills — no landlord-tenant bills), 2025 special session (2 bills, corrections real estate only). Negative findings (no deposit interest or separate-account rule, no late-fee statute or grace period, no enumerated entry-reasons list) verified against the full chapter text in both reads. Note: sdlegislature.gov statute pages are served through an interactive viewer, but all text was read from the same official host's published data endpoints — no mirrors were needed or used.