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

24 hours. That 24 hours is a default the lease can override, not a floor. It applies only where the rental agreement is silent, and a lease may set a shorter notice period, a longer one, or none at all.

What reasons allow a landlord to enter a rental in Utah?

Utah's entry statute lists no permitted entry purposes, no 'reasonable times' limit, and no restriction on frequency — unlike the URLTA states. Entry rights and purposes are left to the rental agreement and to general trespass and covenant law.

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

None — the statute sets no clock hours and contains no 'reasonable times' language.

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

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Utah landlords must give at least 24 hours' notice before entering a rental unit — but only if the lease doesn't say otherwise, because the statute expressly yields to the rental agreement (Utah Code 57-22-4(2)).

Cited to Utah Code § 57-22-4 (2), (9) · Verified July 10, 2026

That makes Utah's rule a default, not a floor: a lease clause can shorten the notice period or eliminate it entirely, which is the opposite of states where the statutory notice is a minimum the lease cannot waive. The one-sentence statute is also unusually bare — it does not require the notice to be in writing, does not list permitted entry purposes, does not restrict entry to reasonable times, and contains no express emergency exception (emergency entry rests on the lease and general law rather than on the Fit Premises Act). Enforcement is limited: under 57-22-4(9), a renter may not sue the landlord or treat the lease as excused over an entry-notice violation, so the rule matters mainly as a lease-drafting baseline and in defensive contexts. Tenants who want written notice, purpose limits, or daytime-only entry must negotiate them into the rental agreement.

Utah entry notice at a glance

Advance notice required	24 hours
Notice standard	That 24 hours is a default the lease can override, not a floor. It applies only where the rental agreement is silent, and a lease may set a shorter notice period, a longer one, or none at all. Utah Code 57-22-4(2) provides: 'Except as otherwise provided in the rental agreement, an owner shall provide the renter at least 24 hours prior notice of the owner's entry into the renter's residential rental unit.' The statute does not require the notice to be written and sets no other conditions.
Permitted reasons	Utah's entry statute lists no permitted entry purposes, no 'reasonable times' limit, and no restriction on frequency — unlike the URLTA states. Entry rights and purposes are left to the rental agreement and to general trespass and covenant law.
Emergency exception	Not addressed by statute
Time-of-day restrictions	None — the statute sets no clock hours and contains no 'reasonable times' language.

Cite this page: "Landlord Atlas, Utah Landlord Entry Notice Laws (verified July 10, 2026), landlordatlas.com/laws/entry-notice/utah/" — free to cite and quote with a link (how these records are verified). Every figure above is cited to the Utah statute in the citations section below.

Notes and caveats

The lease controls; 24 hours applies only in its silence — 'except as otherwise provided in the rental agreement' means the rental agreement controls, and the 24-hour default applies only where the lease says nothing. Secondary sources often present 24 hours as a hard minimum, which is wrong in Utah.
Where the 24 hours comes from — the statutory phrase is 'at least 24 hours prior notice,' in the official text effective 5/5/2021 (Ch. 98 = HB 68).
Emergency exception is left unanswered, not answered 'no' — the statute is silent — it neither grants an emergency-entry right nor requires notice in an emergency. Whether an owner may enter without notice in an emergency is governed by the lease and common law, not by this section.
No purposes, no hours, no frequency limit — the entry provision is one sentence in total. Utah did not adopt the URLTA inspection, repair and showing list found in Arizona- and Oklahoma-style acts, and sets no 'reasonable times' limit.
A renter cannot sue over an entry-notice violation — 57-22-4(9) bars a renter's cause of action here, so the injunction and lease-termination remedies available in other states do not exist in Utah.
Unchanged since 2021 — the section has not been amended since 2021, and no 2026 legislation touched it.

Common questions: Utah 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 Utah?: 24 hours. That 24 hours is a default the lease can override, not a floor. It applies only where the rental agreement is silent, and a lease may set a shorter notice period, a longer one, or none at all.
What reasons allow a landlord to enter a rental in Utah?: Utah's entry statute lists no permitted entry purposes, no 'reasonable times' limit, and no restriction on frequency — unlike the URLTA states. Entry rights and purposes are left to the rental agreement and to general trespass and covenant law.
Can a landlord enter without notice in an emergency in Utah?: Not addressed by statute.
Are there time-of-day limits on when a landlord can enter in Utah?: None — the statute sets no clock hours and contains no 'reasonable times' language.

Statute citations

Utah Code § 57-22-4 (2), (9) (verified 2026) Official source

How this record was verified: Direct read of statute text on the official Utah Legislature site (le.utah.gov): the versioned section content files behind the xcode pages for Utah Code 57-17-1 through 57-17-5, 57-22-2, 57-22-3, 57-22-4, 57-22-7, 57-20-1, 78B-6-802, and 10-8-85.5, plus the chapter tables of contents for Title 57 Chapters 17 and 22 (negative checks). Every key figure re-read on law.justia.com's 2025 Utah Code mirror and matched verbatim: the 30-day deposit return clock and its vacate-plus-return-of-possession trigger, the five-business-day cure window and $100 civil penalty with the 57-17-3(3) notice prerequisite, the late-fee cap ('the greater of 10% of the rent agreed to in the rental agreement; or $75'), the 24-hour entry-notice default and its 'except as otherwise provided in the rental agreement' carve-out, the 57-22-4(9) no-cause-of-action clause, the 15-calendar-day month-to-month termination notice of 78B-6-802(1)(b)(i), and the 57-20-1 rent and fee control prohibition. Bill attributions and statuses verified against le.utah.gov's own bill-status JSON endpoint and enrolled/introduced bill texts: 2021 HB 68 (Ch. 98, late-fee cap and entry notice, eff. 5/5/2021), 2025 HB 480 (Ch. 275, electronic deposit returns, eff. 5/7/2025), 2026 HB 591 (Ch. 401, nuisance-only changes to 78B-6-802, eff. 5/6/2026). 2026 General Session (adjourned sine die March 2026, no carryover) checked: HB 478 (rent-increase/fee notice) and HB 516 both died 'House/ filed' 3/6/2026; no enacted 2026 law touches the four topics.