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What must an Arizona landlord disclose to a tenant, and what must the lease say?

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An Arizona landlord must tell the tenant in writing, at or before the tenancy begins, the name and address of the manager and of an owner or someone authorized to accept service, and must also state in writing that the state's landlord and tenant act can be read on the housing department's website.

Cited to A.R.S. § 33-1308 (exclusions) (1)–(7) and 26 more cited sources · Verified September 13, 2026

On move in the landlord must hand over a signed copy of the lease, a move-in form for noting existing damage, and written notice that the tenant may attend the move-out inspection, though nobody has to sign the form. Bed-bug educational materials are owed to every tenant except in a single-family home, a pool at the dwelling brings the health department's pool safety notice, and a property already in foreclosure brings a notice in words the statute sets out. Arizona requires no flood disclosure, no methamphetamine, mold, radon or asbestos disclosure and no state lead add-on, and a landlord cannot be sued for staying silent about a death, a felony or a registered sex offender nearby. Five kinds of lease clause are void, and a landlord who deliberately uses one owes actual damages and up to two months' rent.

Arizona lease disclosures at a glance

Which law governs Chapter 10 of Title 33, the Arizona Residential Landlord and Tenant Act, is the residential rule: it applies to, regulates and determines rights, obligations and remedies under a rental agreement, wherever made, for a dwelling unit located in Arizona, it applies to the rental of dwelling units, and it controls over the older general landlord-tenant chapters of the same title where they conflict. Four duties on this page sit outside that chapter. The registration filing and its occupancy bar are in chapter 17 of the same title; the smoke-detector notice and the swimming-pool safety notice are in the public health and safety title; the rule protecting a lessor who does not disclose a death, a felony or a nearby sex offender is in the real estate licensing title; and the statute of frauds and the electronic transactions act are in the contracts title. The sale-side affidavit of disclosure, the soil-remediation notice and the recorded military disclosures are seller-to-buyer duties and are not the residential rule here.
Who is covered Statewide, with the act's own exclusion list and four duty-level thresholds. The act does not reach, unless the arrangement was created to avoid it: residence at an institution incidental to detention or to medical, educational, counseling, religious or social-service care; occupancy under a contract of sale by the purchaser or a successor; a member of a fraternal or social organization in the organization's own part of a structure; transient occupancy in a hotel, motel or recreational lodging; a manager or custodian whose occupancy depends on employment; a condominium owner or a cooperative's proprietary lessee; and public housing under the state housing title or federal law. Within the act, four duties are narrower than the rest: the bed-bug duty excludes the landlord and tenant of a single-family residence; the foreclosure notice does not apply to multifamily rental units of four or more connected units, so it reaches single-family homes, duplexes and triplexes; the pool safety notice reaches only a dwelling with a body of water eighteen inches or more deep and wider than eight feet intended for swimming; and the smoke-detector notice reaches only a unit in which a detector was installed under the state rule, meaning new construction or a permitted sleeping-area remodel.
Written lease, copy and signature rules

No statute requires a residential lease to be in writing beyond the statute of frauds, so an oral tenancy is lawful. The landlord must give the tenant a copy of the lease; the statute sets no day count.

No Arizona statute requires a residential rental agreement to be in writing. The chapter is permissive about terms, supplies fair rental value where there is no agreement, and defaults the tenancy to month-to-month, or week-to-week for a roomer paying weekly rent. A lease for a term longer than one year must be written and signed to be enforceable. Where there is a written agreement, two copy duties run. The landlord must tender and deliver a signed copy within a reasonable time after the agreement is executed, and the tenant must sign and deliver one fully executed copy back to the landlord within the same reasonable time; a written agreement must have all blank spaces completed; and a failure is material non-compliance with the agreement by whichever party failed. Separately, on move in the landlord must furnish the tenant with a signed copy of the lease. No day count is attached to either. Arizona prescribes no language or translation duty, no plain-language act and no type-size rule for leases; the one twelve-point rule in its disclosure family belongs to a seller's affidavit.

Statute of frauds: No action may be brought on an agreement for leasing for a longer period than one year unless the agreement, or some memorandum of it, is in writing and signed by the party to be charged, and where an agent signs the agent's authority must itself be in writing (section 44-101, paragraph 6). A separate paragraph of the same section independently reaches an agreement that is not to be performed within one year of its making.

Electronic leases and signatures: Arizona's electronic transactions act applies with no landlord-tenant carve-out: a record or signature may not be denied legal effect solely because it is electronic, an electronic record satisfies any law requiring a record to be in writing or retained, and an electronic signature satisfies any law requiring a signature. The scope section excludes only wills and testamentary trusts, referendum and initiative petitions and most of the commercial code, so a residential lease and the disclosures on this page may be electronic. The landlord-tenant chapter's own service rule still governs notices under the chapter: they are hand delivered or sent by registered or certified mail, and a mailed notice is treated as received on actual receipt or five days after mailing, whichever comes first.
Owner and agent identity

Yes — a statute requires the landlord to disclose the owner's or managing agent's identity to the tenant, in a separate writing.

At or before the tenancy begins, the landlord or anyone authorized to enter into a rental agreement on the landlord's behalf must disclose to the tenant in writing the name and address of the person authorized to manage the premises, and of an owner of the premises or a person authorized to act for the owner in accepting service of process and receiving and receipting for notices and demands. Both roles, not one or the other. Only a name and an address are required; no telephone number, and there is no posting alternative and no requirement that it sit in the lease. The information must be kept current and refurnished to the tenant on request, and the duty is enforceable against any successor landlord, owner or manager. A person who fails to comply becomes an agent of each person who is a landlord, both for service of process and notices and for performing the landlord's obligations under the chapter and the agreement, spending or making available the rent collected from the premises for that purpose. Arizona also runs a registration layer, and it is the part with teeth. An owner of residential rental property must keep on file with the county assessor the owner's name, address and telephone number, a named officer, general partner, managing member or trustee for an entity owner, the street address and parcel number, and the year the building was built, and must update any of it within ten days of a change; an owner living outside Arizona must designate and record a statutory agent living in the state to accept legal service. Those filings are public records. Residential rental property may not be occupied if the information is not on file, and a tenant already in occupation may serve a ten-day written notice to comply, by certified mail with return receipt or by hand, and then terminate the agreement, with all prepaid rent returned within ten days and the deposit returned under the deposit section. A city or town must assess a civil penalty of one thousand dollars plus one hundred dollars a month for property acquired after the notice of assessed valuation, which a court may not suspend, and otherwise one hundred fifty dollars a day, each with a ten-day cure, and the assessor may charge up to ten dollars for a registration or a change. The termination right applies to any existing lease and to any lease made after August 25, 2004.
Required statements and lease text

No general statement — the only duty is to tell the tenant where the act can be read.

Arizona prescribes no tenant-rights document and no general lease wording. What it requires instead is a written statement telling the tenant that the state's residential landlord and tenant act can be read on the Department of Housing's website, and that statement is the whole of the state's general rights posture. Nothing else must appear in every Arizona lease: there is no enumerated list of subjects a lease must cover, and the three lease-content commands the state does have are each conditional, two on the landlord choosing to bill utilities separately and one on the property being in foreclosure. The documents a landlord hands over in Arizona all belong to particular subjects and are described where they belong: the health department's pool safety notice and the bed-bug educational materials on the hazard table, the move-in damage form and the move-out inspection notice on the move-in row, and the foreclosure notice among the location disclosures.

The required notice:

Written statement that the residential landlord and tenant act is available online — a duty to tell the tenant where the act can be read. At or before the tenancy begins, the landlord must inform the tenant in writing that the Arizona Residential Landlord and Tenant Act is available on the Department of Housing's website. No wording is prescribed, no form is published, the statute names no web address, and the tenant signs nothing. It is not a hollow duty: a failure to give it carries the same consequence as a failure to disclose the owner and manager, so the landlord becomes an agent of each person who is a landlord for service of process and for performing the landlord's obligations out of the rent collected. Given before signing and at signing, handed over. (§ 33-1322(B), (D))

Listed, but not a general duty counted above:

Utility services charged separately, and the administrative fee — words or content the lease itself must carry. Where the landlord charges separately for gas, water, wastewater, solid waste removal or electricity by submetering or by a ratio utility billing system, the rental agreement must carry a disclosure listing the utility services charged separately and specifying the amount of any administrative fee for that billing. The statute fixes the content, not the words. The text is required only because the landlord elects to bill that way, so it is listed here and not counted toward the count above. Given at signing, inside the lease itself. (§ 33-1314.01(B))

Description of the ratio utility billing method — words or content the lease itself must carry. Where the landlord allocates utility costs by a ratio utility billing system, the rental agreement must contain a specific description of the method used, chosen from the five the statute names or any other method that fairly allocates the charges and is itself described in the agreement. Required only because the landlord elects that billing method, so it is listed here and not counted toward the count above. Given at signing, inside the lease itself. The statute fixes the substance, not the words. (§ 33-1314.01(F)(6), (G))

Lease contents the statutes or rules address, each in the circumstance it names:

• Where the landlord charges separately for a utility, a disclosure listing the utility services charged separately and specifying the amount of any administrative fee associated with submetering or a ratio utility billing system (section 33-1314.01, subsection B).

• Where the landlord uses a ratio utility billing system, a specific description of the method used to allocate utility costs, and where the landlord relies on the catch-all method, a description of that method (section 33-1314.01, subsections F and G).

• Where the rental agreement is entered into after a foreclosure action was initiated, written notice of possible foreclosure in substantially the words the statute sets out, included with the agreement (section 33-1331, subsection A).
Move-in condition report

Yes — the landlord must give a written condition statement, checklist or inventory.

On move in the landlord must furnish the tenant with three things in one sentence of the deposit section: a signed copy of the lease, a move-in form for specifying any existing damage to the dwelling unit, and written notification that the tenant may be present at the move-out inspection. The duty is to furnish the form. Nothing requires the tenant to fill it in, sign it or give it back, and nothing requires the landlord to record anything on it, which makes Arizona's requirement thinner than its reputation. On the tenant's request the landlord must also say when the landlord's move-out inspection will happen, though a joint inspection is excused where the tenant is being evicted for a material and irreparable breach and the landlord has reasonable cause to fear violence or intimidation. The section states no consequence for omitting the form or the notice: the double-damages remedy in the same section is tied to the itemized deduction list at the end of the tenancy, not to these duties. The duty does not depend on a deposit being taken, though it sits inside the deposit section, and there is no unit or building threshold.

When and who signs: On move in. The statute gives no day count, and nobody signs: the landlord must furnish the form, and the tenant is not required to complete, sign or return it.

Deposit notice at signing: The purpose of every nonrefundable fee or deposit must be stated in writing by the landlord, and any fee or deposit not designated as nonrefundable is refundable; security is capped at one and one-half months' rent and an itemized list of deductions is owed within fourteen days, excluding weekends and legal holidays, after termination, delivery of possession and the tenant's demand (section 33-1321, subsections A, B and D). The deposits page carries the rest.
Hazard disclosures

Three in-force state hazard disclosures: bed bugs (at signing); swimming-pool safety notice (at signing); and smoke-detector responsibilities notice (with no timing stated). No state duty exists for lead, mold, radon, methamphetamine, or asbestos.

Every state duty and every stated absence, hazard by hazard:

Lead (state add-on to the federal rule) — no state duty. Arizona adds nothing to the federal lead-paint rule. Across the state's 47 live titles and 25,108 section headings, not one heading uses the words lead-based or lead paint. The state's lead work is a health-department program of childhood blood-lead screening and reporting by medical providers; there is no state form, no registration of pre-1978 rental units, no certificate and no re-disclosure on renewal.

Mold — no state duty. Arizona has no mold disclosure and no mold standard of any kind. The word does not appear in a single section heading in the whole code, and none of the administrative chapters that could reach a dwelling mentions it.

Bed bugs — in force — a state duty, at signing, in a separate document (a statute). The landlord must provide bed-bug educational materials to existing and new tenants. What goes in them is left to the landlord: the statute lists things the materials may include, among them a description of prevention and control measures, what bed bugs look like, behaviors that attract them such as buying renovated or discarded mattresses and used furniture or traveling without precautions, material from federal, state or local health or housing agencies, material from non-profit housing organizations, and information the landlord develops itself. No agency publishes a form, no title is prescribed and nothing must be signed. Arizona requires no disclosure of the unit's or the building's bed-bug history at all. What the same section does instead is bar the landlord from entering into a lease for a unit the landlord knows to have a current infestation, meaning a presence of bed bugs sufficient to materially affect the health and safety of tenants and their guests. The section states no penalty of its own, and it goes further: except as it specifically provides, it creates no cause of action for bed-bug damages either by a tenant against the landlord or by a landlord against a tenant. The chapter's general non-compliance route is expressly left intact. Threshold: The landlord and tenant of a single-family residence are excluded from the section entirely.

Radon — no state duty. Arizona has no radon disclosure. The only two radon sections in the entire code sit in the minerals, oil and gas title and regulate mines: one on radon control and one on testing for radon daughters in uranium operations. The health department's radiation rules use the word only in technical limits and licensing definitions.

Methamphetamine — no state duty. Arizona requires no disclosure that a dwelling was used to manufacture methamphetamine, and it goes no further in any other direction either: there is no decontamination standard for a dwelling and no bar on occupying a contaminated one. The words clandestine and drug lab appear in no section heading in the code, and the two methamphetamine headings are a criminal offense for manufacturing that injures a minor and a pharmacy precursor-tracking rule. The environmental agency's remedial action rules reach contaminated sites under the state clean-up program, not a home at signing. Arizona is often grouped with states that require this disclosure; it belongs in neither that group nor the group that bars renting instead.

Asbestos — no state duty. No Arizona statute requires an asbestos disclosure to a tenant. The five asbestos sections in the code are about litigation procedure, the reporting of asbestosis and mesothelioma, and an educational pamphlet a contractor must give under the Registrar of Contractors. None of them reaches a landlord at signing.

Swimming-pool safety notice — in force — a state duty, at signing, on an agency document (a statute). A person entering into an agreement to rent or lease a dwelling with a swimming pool or other contained body of water must give the renter a notice explaining safety education and the responsibilities of pool ownership, as approved by the state health department. The department's approved document is the Residential Pool Safety Notice, published in English only, which sets out the legal requirements of pool ownership and the department's safety recommendations. Nothing must be signed. The notice itself repeats that a city or county may impose its own equal or stricter pool requirements. Threshold: Only a dwelling with a swimming pool or other contained body of water, meaning water eighteen inches or more deep at any point, wider than eight feet at any point and intended for swimming. Document: Residential Pool Safety Notice, issued by the Arizona Department of Health Services, Office of Environmental Health. Revision: September 2012, printed on the last line of the face of the document. The file itself carries a file date of June 24, 2022, which is the file's date rather than a revision. The agency's environmental health page, which links the notice under its own name, is the page checked weekly. Agency page. If the duty is not met: A person who violates the section is guilty of a petty offense, though no fine may be imposed where the person shows that the pool was equipped with a barrier meeting the state standards within forty-five days of citation and that an approved pool safety course was attended. The safe harbor is drafted around the barrier rather than the notice.

Smoke-detector responsibilities notice — in force — a state duty, with no timing stated, in writing (a statute). Where a smoke detector was installed under the state installation rule, the tenant must keep it operable unless the tenant tells the landlord in writing that it has failed, in which case the landlord must repair it. The landlord must give the tenant written notification of those responsibilities. The statute states no deadline for the notification and no form for it, so it is recorded here as owed with the tenancy documents, and it states no penalty for a failure. The installation duty itself is a repair-and-condition question and is on the habitability page. Threshold: Only a unit in which a detector was installed under this section: a new residential housing unit, or an existing unit that did not comply and whose sleeping area was remodeled under a permit from the local authority.
Flood disclosure

No.

Arizona requires no flood disclosure to a tenant. Of the 25,108 section headings in the state's live titles, thirty-four use the word flood and every one is about something else: flood control districts, floodplain regulation and delineation, flood warning systems, flood-damaged agricultural acreage, flood-damaged vehicles, emergency-response liability in flood areas, mine precautions, a livestock grant program and a county tax levy. The sixty sections of the residential landlord and tenant chapter contain no flood provision, and no administrative rule supplies one. The state's only statutory flood statement is on the sale side and is narrow even there: a seller of five or fewer parcels of land, other than subdivided land, in an unincorporated area of a county must give the buyer a written affidavit of disclosure at least seven days before the transfer, in twelve-point type, whose sixth item asks whether the property is in a flood plain designated by the federal mapping agency and warns that flood-plain regulation may apply; the buyer may rescind within five days of receiving it, and the executed affidavit is recorded with the deed. It runs to a buyer, never to a tenant.
Disclosures about the property's situation Arizona has one, and it is prescribed text. Where a rental agreement is entered into after a foreclosure action was initiated, the owner must include written notice of possible foreclosure with the agreement, substantially in the words the statute sets out: that the property is undergoing foreclosure, whom to contact for more information about the action, naming the court, trustee, attorney or other responsible party with an address and telephone number, and that a sale at auction may or may not follow, with either the time, date and place already set for the sale or a statement that no date has been established. Where the owner receives the first notice of a trustee's sale, or any other notice of foreclosure, after the tenant has already signed, the same notice must reach the tenant within five business days; only the first such notice triggers it. If the owner does not give the notice the tenant may serve a written notice under the chapter's non-compliance section and recover damages and injunctive relief, and the deposit must be returned. The duty does not apply to multifamily rental units of four or more connected units, so it reaches single-family rentals, duplexes and triplexes. Beyond foreclosure there is nothing: no registered-sex-offender notice, no death or crime disclosure, no demolition or condominium-conversion notice, and no military noise-zone or airport disclosure to a tenant. The soil-remediation notice and the recorded military-airport, training-route, electronics-range and restricted-airspace disclosures all run on the sale side, from an owner to a purchaser.
What need not be disclosed

Yes — no cause of action arises from not disclosing the facts the rule names.

Arizona has an express rule protecting a landlord who says nothing, and it names lessors and leases on its face. No criminal, civil or administrative action may be brought against a transferor or lessor of real property, or against a licensee, for failing to disclose that the property being transferred or leased is or has been the site of a natural death, a suicide, a homicide or any other crime classified as a felony; owned or occupied by a person exposed to HIV or diagnosed with AIDS or any other disease not known to be transmitted through common occupancy; or located in the vicinity of a sex offender. Failing to disclose any of those facts or suspicions is also not a ground for terminating or rescinding the transaction, so the protection removes the deal-unwinding remedies as well as damages. The sex-offender limb is unusual: most states with a rule of this kind cover deaths and disease but say nothing about a neighbor.
Utility, fee and payment disclosures Arizona's fee and utility rules are short and specific. Utilities: a landlord may charge separately for gas, water, wastewater, solid waste removal or electricity by installing submeters or by allocating the charges through a ratio utility billing system, may recover what the utility provider charges plus an administrative fee for actual administrative costs only, and may impose no additional charges. The rental agreement must list the utility services charged separately and specify the amount of any administrative fee, and where a ratio system is used the agreement must contain a specific description of the allocation method. Five methods are named, per tenant, proportionately by livable square footage, per type of unit, per number of water fixtures, and for water and wastewater by an individually submetered hot-water measure, and any other method may be used if it fairly allocates the charges and is itself described in the agreement. A landlord may switch an existing tenancy to submetering or ratio billing only if the agreement provides for it and only after at least ninety days' notice. Every bill must separately state the period's charges together with the opening and closing meter readings and the dates of those readings, and must show any administrative fee. A tenant who thinks the rules are not being followed must object to the landlord in writing first and may then file a civil complaint in justice court. Fees: the purpose of every nonrefundable fee or deposit must be stated in writing by the landlord, and any fee or deposit not designated as nonrefundable is refundable, which makes the sanction self-executing. That is the whole of Arizona's fee disclosure law. There is no rent receipt duty, no shared-meter prohibition, no rent-concession disclosure, no renter's-insurance requirement, no smoking-policy disclosure, no rent reporting and no payment-method disclosure. One paperwork rule keeps the disclosure alive across a sale: on the sale or other transfer of an apartment community the landlord must deliver to the buyer complete files for each tenant, containing the rental agreements and all other documents and disclosures the chapter requires that the landlord holds. Late fees, application fees and deposits have their own pages.
Lease clauses that are void or prohibited

Yes — the statute lists the lease provisions that are void or prohibited.

One section carries the whole roster and it reaches clauses that burden the tenant: a rental agreement may not provide that the tenant waives or foregoes rights or remedies under the chapter, agrees to pay the landlord's attorney fees, agrees to exculpate or limit the landlord's liability or to indemnify the landlord for it, agrees to waive or limit the right of the tenant or of anyone else to summon a peace officer or other emergency assistance in an emergency, or agrees to monetary penalties or any other penalty for the tenant or anyone else summoning that help. The last two are Arizona's distinctive pair, and the protection deliberately covers calls made by someone other than the tenant. The fee item carries its own exception: a written prevailing-party clause is lawful, and a prevailing party in a contested eviction action may be awarded fees by statute whether or not the agreement provides for it. The roster is not spread across the code and there is no separate unconscionability route on this subject, though the chapter does carry a general unconscionability section. Using a prohibited clause deliberately, knowing it is prohibited, exposes the landlord to the tenant's actual damages and up to two months' periodic rent, and the section preserves the landlord's own eviction remedies. One further clause rule sits outside the roster: a condominium or planned-community association may not require a tenant to sign a waiver or other document limiting the tenant's due process rights as a condition of occupancy.

Using a prohibited clause carries a statutory sanction; the statute's own measure follows.

Sanction as the statute states it: A prohibited provision included in a rental agreement is unenforceable, and where the landlord deliberately uses an agreement containing provisions the landlord knows to be prohibited, the tenant may recover actual damages and not more than two months' periodic rent. Deliberate use is enough; the tenant need not show that the landlord tried to enforce the clause.

The listed provisions:

• A provision that the tenant agrees to waive or forego rights or remedies under the residential landlord and tenant chapter.

• A provision that the tenant agrees to pay the landlord's attorney fees, except a written agreement that fees may be awarded to the prevailing party in a court action, and except that a prevailing party in a contested eviction action may be awarded fees by statute whether or not the agreement says so.

• A provision agreeing to the exculpation or limitation of any liability of the landlord arising under law, or to indemnify the landlord for that liability or its costs.

• A provision that the tenant agrees to waive or limit the tenant's right, or any other person's right, to summon a peace officer or other emergency assistance in response to an emergency.

• A provision agreeing to monetary penalties, or otherwise penalizing the tenant, for the tenant or anyone else summoning a peace officer or other emergency assistance in response to an emergency.

Expressly permitted: A written agreement may provide that attorney fees are awarded to the prevailing party in a court action; only a clause making the tenant pay the landlord's fees is void.
Attorney-fee clauses

Prevailing-party attorney fees are discretionary or conditioned and limited to named actions. Separately, a lease clause making a party pay the landlord's attorney fees is void, as the section cited states. Scope: Contested eviction actions only: the court may award the successful party reasonable fees under the general contract-fee statute whether or not the lease provides for them, capped at the fees that party paid or agreed to pay, and the award is discretionary.

Two rules work together. A lease clause making the tenant pay the landlord's attorney fees is void, but a written clause awarding fees to whichever party prevails in a court action is expressly permitted, so the ban runs one way. Beyond the clause, the same paragraph says a prevailing party in a contested eviction action is eligible to be awarded attorney fees under the general contract-fee statute whether or not the rental agreement provides for an award, which is why the availability of fees does not depend on the lease. The qualifier matters: that general statute says the court may award the successful party reasonable fees in a contested action arising out of a contract, so the award is discretionary rather than compelled, it may not exceed the amount the party paid or agreed to pay, and the court rather than a jury decides it. Outside a contested eviction action the parties are back to whatever their agreement says. Arizona sets no percentage cap.
When, how, and what happens on a failure Arizona's pegs are mostly events rather than day counts. At or before the tenancy begins: the owner and manager identity disclosure and the written statement that the act is available online. On move in: the signed copy of the lease, the move-in damage form and the written notice that the tenant may attend the move-out inspection. Within a reasonable time after the agreement is executed: the landlord's tender of a signed copy and the tenant's return of a fully executed one, a duty that runs both ways. On entering into an agreement to rent a dwelling with a pool: the health department's pool safety notice. Within five business days: the foreclosure notice where the first notice of a trustee's sale arrives after the tenant has signed. Ninety days ahead: notice before submetering or ratio billing is imposed on an existing tenancy. On request: the identity information again, and the date of the landlord's move-out inspection. Nothing in the Arizona set requires a signature from the tenant, and no rule governs electronic delivery of these particular duties; the chapter's general service rule covers notices under the chapter, by hand or by registered or certified mail, treated as received on actual receipt or five days after mailing, whichever is first. The remedies are concentrated rather than spread. The identity disclosure and the availability statement are backed by agency by operation of law, which makes the non-discloser answerable for the landlord's obligations out of the rent collected. The assessor registration is backed by a bar on occupancy and a tenant's right to serve a ten-day notice and then terminate with all prepaid rent returned. A missed foreclosure notice brings damages, injunctive relief and the return of the deposit. Deliberate use of a prohibited lease clause brings actual damages and up to two months' rent. A missing pool notice is a petty offense. An undesignated fee is simply refundable. Against all that, four duties state no consequence at all: the move-in form, the move-out inspection notice, the bed-bug materials and the smoke-detector notice, and the bed-bug section goes further by barring bed-bug damages actions in both directions.
Can cities add their own rules Arizona preempts on three subjects and two of them reach this page. Rent: the legislature has declared rent control on private residential housing a matter of statewide concern and taken the power away from cities, including charter cities, and towns, except for property owned, financed, insured or subsidized by a state agency or a city or town. Bed bugs: a city, town or county may not adopt requirements by ordinance or otherwise for landlords or tenants relating to the control of bed bugs other than those the state statute prescribes, which means the state's educational-materials duty is the only bed-bug lease duty there can be; a local rule on the proper disposal of infested items is the one thing left open. Rental licensing and registration: a city or town may not adopt a residential rental licensing requirement, may not adopt a residential rental registration requirement, and may obtain rental registration information only from the county assessor, with counties bound by the same rule. What a city may still do is run a citywide rental inspection program, and only after a heavily gated process: a public hearing with adoption at a regular council meeting at least thirty days later, adoption by at least a three-fourths vote of the entire council, first-class mail notice to every owner then registered with the county assessor at least twenty days before the hearing, and newspaper plus official-website notice not less than two weeks before; a county board needs a majority vote instead of three-fourths. State law separately fixes when an inspection may be triggered, which is non-compliance with the assessor registration or a slum-property designation, with the tenant's consent required to enter an occupied interior and the owner bearing the cost. In the other direction, the pool-safety article expressly preserves local pool-barrier ordinances that are equal to or more stringent than the state rule, and the health department's own notice repeats the point. Neither Phoenix nor Tucson has a signing-stage packet on this page.
How state law refers to the federal rules State law adds nothing to, and refers to nothing in, the federal rules, which are listed further down this page
Changes already signed into law No signed act is waiting beyond any not-yet-in-force duty already stated on this page
Leading court decisions This page rests on the statutes and rules cited below

Cite this page: "Landlord Atlas, Arizona Lease Disclosure Laws & Required Lease Terms (verified September 13, 2026), landlordatlas.com/laws/lease-disclosures/arizona/" — free to cite and quote with a link (how these records are verified). Everything above is cited in the citations section below.

Arizona hazard disclosures at a glance

Three rows below are in-force state duties to disclose, hand over, attach or post a hazard notice as part of renting; the federal lead-paint rule applies on top for housing built before 1978. Each row's full text, trigger, threshold and remedy are in the table above.

Hazard Status When Form Prescribed document
Lead (state add-on to the federal rule) None — — —
Mold None — — —
Bed bugs In force At signing Separate document —
Radon None — — —
Methamphetamine None — — —
Asbestos None — — —
Swimming-pool safety notice In force At signing Agency document Residential Pool Safety Notice — Arizona Department of Health Services, Office of Environmental Health
Smoke-detector responsibilities notice In force With no timing stated In writing —

Federal rules that apply in every state

The federal layer for the lease-disclosures topic, carried once for the whole site. Every row names who it binds: most federal lease attachments bind only a landlord who takes a voucher or holds HUD-assisted or HUD-insured property, and the one rule that binds every landlord (the lead-paint disclosure rule) is a floor that state law may add to. No state record restates these rows; a state record says only where its own law references or extends them. Each row below says who it binds before it says what it requires. The full text of each row, with its citations, is on the 50-state page.

Notes and caveats

Common questions: Arizona lease disclosures

Each answer is the verified value from the table above, restated as a direct answer. Free to quote with a link to this page.

Does Arizona require a landlord to give the tenant a written statement of tenant rights?
No general statement — the only duty is to tell the tenant where the act can be read. Arizona prescribes no tenant-rights document and no general lease wording.
Does an Arizona landlord have to disclose the owner's name and address?
Yes — a statute requires the landlord to disclose the owner's or managing agent's identity to the tenant, in a separate writing. At or before the tenancy begins, the landlord or anyone authorized to enter into a rental agreement on the landlord's behalf must disclose to the tenant in writing the name and address of the person authorized to manage the premises, and of an owner of the premises or a person authorized to act for the owner in accepting service of process and receiving and receipting for notices and demands.
Is a move-in inspection checklist required in Arizona?
Yes — the landlord must give a written condition statement, checklist or inventory. On move in the landlord must furnish the tenant with three things in one sentence of the deposit section: a signed copy of the lease, a move-in form for specifying any existing damage to the dwelling unit, and written notification that the tenant may be present at the move-out inspection.
What hazards must an Arizona landlord disclose to a tenant?
Three in-force state hazard disclosures: bed bugs (at signing); swimming-pool safety notice (at signing); and smoke-detector responsibilities notice (with no timing stated). No state duty exists for lead, mold, radon, methamphetamine, or asbestos.
Does Arizona require flood disclosure to renters?
No. Arizona requires no flood disclosure to a tenant. Of the 25,108 section headings in the state's live titles, thirty-four use the word flood and every one is about something else: flood control districts, floodplain regulation and delineation, flood warning systems, flood-damaged agricultural acreage, flood-damaged vehicles, emergency-response liability in flood areas, mine precautions, a livestock grant program and a county tax levy.
Does Arizona void or prohibit specific lease clauses?
Yes — the statute lists the lease provisions that are void or prohibited. One section carries the whole roster and it reaches clauses that burden the tenant: a rental agreement may not provide that the tenant waives or foregoes rights or remedies under the chapter, agrees to pay the landlord's attorney fees, agrees to exculpate or limit the landlord's liability or to indemnify the landlord for it, agrees to waive or limit the right of the tenant or of anyone else to summon a peace officer or other emergency assistance in an emergency, or agrees to monetary penalties or any other penalty for the tenant or anyone else summoning that help.

Citations

How this record was verified: Direct reading of the Arizona Revised Statutes on the Legislature's own site, one section per file. Title 33 chapter 10, the Residential Landlord and Tenant Act, was enumerated in full from the official title index, all 60 sections by number and heading, and every disclosure-bearing section was read in full, along with the previously unread tail of Title 33 covering county-assessor registration, inspections, slum property and the recreational-vehicle rental-space act. Sections 33-422, 33-423, 33-434.01 and 32-2156 were read for the sale side, 36-1637 and 36-1681 for the detector and pool duties, 44-101 and 44-7003 with 44-7007 for the statute of frauds and electronic records, 12-341.01 for attorney fees, and 9-500.31, 11-269.11, 9-1304, 11-1704 and 33-1329 for preemption. The served code carries no credit, history or source line and no printed edition; its only currency marker is a generation date in each file, which read September 8 to 10, 2026, so the served text post-dates the close of the 2026 session. Because Arizona prints no credit lines, the effective date of any value must come from a session-law chapter, and the check was run accordingly: the Session Laws surface for the Fifty-seventh Legislature, Second Regular Session, whose rows are chaptered bills, was enumerated in full, all 264 of 264 chapters, keyword-filtered, and the two candidates were read in full from their chapter texts with their approval and filing dates; neither creates a tenant duty. The session's general effective date, read on the Legislature's own table, is September 12, 2026, which fixes the close of the session and confirms that every 2026 chapter without its own date is now in force. Every one of the 2,199 bills of the session was enumerated from the Legislature's bill interface and keyword-filtered, and the two headline disclosure bills were pulled individually for their stated final disposition. The negatives rest on a heading harvest of the whole code: the official title index for every title from 1 to 49, giving 25,108 section headings across 47 live titles, matched against the hazard, disclosure and location vocabulary, with all 51 hits enumerated and classified. The Arizona Administrative Code, current to Supplement 26-2, was searched against its official table of contents of 266 chapters across 21 titles, and the ten chapters capable of reaching a residential dwelling were read in full with every hit enumerated. The health department's Residential Pool Safety Notice and its landing page were read. Two appellate decisions were cite-verified and read in full from the official reporter text and neither carries a value for this topic, so no case is relied on. The 2026 regular session adjourned June 13, 2026 with no carryover and no special session. Verified September 13, 2026.

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