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

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Mississippi requires a residential landlord to disclose nothing at all: no owner or manager identity, no statement of tenant rights, no move-in condition report, no lead, mold, bed-bug, radon, methamphetamine or asbestos disclosure, and no flood disclosure, which is striking in a Gulf Coast state.

Cited to Miss. Code Ann. §§ 89-8-1 to 89-8-45 (Residential Landlord and Tenant Act) § 89-8-3(1)–(2); § 89-8-5; § 89-8-7(1)(k), (l), (m), (2); § 89-8-9; § 89-8-11(1)–(2); § 89-8-13; § 89-8-17(2); § 89-8-19(1)–(3); § 89-8-21(3)–(4); § 89-8-23(3); § 89-8-25(a); § 89-8-27; § 89-8-29(4)–(5); § 89-8-33(b); § 89-8-35(2) and 10 more cited sources · Verified September 13, 2026

There is no duty to use a written lease below the one-year statute of frauds line and no duty to give the tenant a copy of one. A lease may not waive the rights the Residential Landlord and Tenant Act gives, may not authorize a confession of judgment, and may not exculpate the landlord for willful misconduct, though it may still exculpate for ordinary negligence, and nothing follows from a prohibited clause beyond its being unenforceable. The one disclosure statute Mississippi does have runs the other way: a death, a suicide, a homicide, a felony, an occupant's illness and sex-offender registry information are all declared non-material, and failing to disclose them is no ground to end or rescind a transaction in which property has been or will be leased.

Mississippi lease disclosures at a glance

Which law governs Two chapters of the Mississippi Code carry landlord-tenant law and they run side by side. Chapter 89-8, the Residential Landlord and Tenant Act, governs any rental agreement entered into after July 1, 1991 for a dwelling unit in the state, and it holds the anti-waiver rule, the prohibited-clause pair, the definitions, the house-rules standard, the notice rules and the deposit provisions. Chapter 89-7, the older general landlord and tenant chapter, holds distress for rent, replevin and the statutory forms that go with them. Neither contains a disclosure duty. The statute of frauds sits at section 15-3-1 in the general contracts chapter. The property condition disclosure statement, sections 89-1-501 to 89-1-523, and the state's non-disclosure statute, section 89-1-527, sit in the real property title and were enacted together; both are framed around a real estate transaction, and only the last limb of section 89-1-527 expressly reaches a lease. Hazard law is elsewhere again, in certification statutes for lead and asbestos contractors and in the criminal controlled-substances law, none of which speaks to a landlord.
Who is covered The Residential Landlord and Tenant Act reaches any rental agreement entered into after July 1, 1991, wherever made, for a dwelling unit located in the state, including the parties' rights to possession after the agreement ends or expires, a limb added in 2025. Six classes are carved out: a residence at an institution that is incidental to detention or to medical, geriatric, educational, counseling or religious service; occupancy by a purchaser under a contract of sale; occupancy by a member of a fraternal or social organization; transient occupancy in a hotel, motel or lodgings; occupancy by a condominium owner or a cooperative proprietary lessee; and premises used primarily for agricultural purposes or rented below fair rental value to an agricultural laborer. Since July 1, 2025 the chapter gives no rights to a person who trespasses or otherwise enters or remains on another's property without the landlord's knowledge or permission, and the definition of tenant excludes such a person. There are no unit thresholds anywhere in this topic. Separately, the property condition disclosure statement reaches a lease only where the lease carries an option to purchase and a licensed broker or salesperson is involved, and only for property with one to four dwelling units.
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. No statute requires the landlord to give the tenant a copy of the lease.

No Mississippi statute requires a residential lease to be in writing. The Residential Landlord and Tenant Act is indifferent to form on its face: its anti-waiver section opens with the words in any agreement, oral or written, for the rental of real property as a dwelling place, and a rental agreement is defined as all written or oral agreements for a dwelling unit in the state that are subject to the chapter. Where a lease fixes no definite term the tenancy is week to week for a tenant who pays weekly rent and month to month in every other case, so an oral tenancy sits fully inside the Act. A lease for a term longer than one year must be written and signed to be enforceable. No statute requires the landlord to give the tenant a copy of a signed lease, sets any deadline for one, or requires any signing formality; and there is no translation duty, no plain-language act, no type-size rule and no placement rule.

Statute of frauds: An action may not be brought on a contract for the making of a lease of land for a longer term than one year unless the agreement, or some memorandum or note of it, is in writing and signed by the party to be charged, or by a person that party lawfully authorized in writing (section 15-3-1, paragraph (c)).

Electronic leases and signatures: The Residential Landlord and Tenant Act says nothing about signing a lease electronically. What it does say is that some of its notices may travel by electronic mail or text message, and the condition differs from section to section: a notice of breach under section 89-8-13 may be sent that way only if the breaching party has agreed in writing to be notified that way, a termination notice under section 89-8-17 only if the tenant has agreed, with no writing required for the agreement, and a notice ending a week-to-week or month-to-month tenancy under section 89-8-19 must be written, with no electronic alternative at all. Mississippi's general electronic-transactions statute begins at section 75-12-1; this page does not rest a value on it.
Owner and agent identity

No.

Mississippi requires nothing. There is no duty to tell a tenant who owns the building or who manages it, no agent-for-service designation, no posting, no unit threshold and no statewide landlord or rental registration. One adjacent rule runs the other way: notice given to the landlord's agent is equivalent to giving notice to the landlord, and a landlord may contract with an agent to assume all the landlord's rights and duties under the Act, though that contract does not relieve the landlord of ultimate liability for them. That is a rule about the effect of a notice given to an agent the tenant already knows about; it creates no duty to name anyone, and it does not deem an agent to be the owner. Where a licensed real estate broker is involved in the letting, the broker, not the landlord, must give a written agency disclosure on the Real Estate Commission's own form saying whom the broker represents, and that is described in the rights-statement row.
Required statements and lease text

No.

Mississippi prescribes no tenant-rights statement, no summary of the Residential Landlord and Tenant Act, no agency form a landlord must hand over, no model lease and no words a residential lease must contain. There is no duty even to tell a tenant where the Act can be read. The only statutory text a Mississippi landlord ever reproduces is the notice language an eviction summons must carry once the landlord has filed, and that is court process rather than a lease term; it belongs to the eviction page. Two provisions are sometimes mistaken for lease-content rules and are not. The Act sets standards for the landlord's own house rules, which bind the tenant only if they promote tenant convenience, safety or welfare, preserve the landlord's property from abuse or fairly distribute services and facilities, are reasonably related to that purpose, apply fairly to all tenants, are explicit enough to tell a tenant what must or must not be done, and are not a way of evading the landlord's own obligations; a rule adopted or changed after the tenant signs binds only if the tenant gets reasonable notice of it and it does not substantially modify the agreement. And the Act permits, without requiring, a written agreement that the tenant will perform some or all of the landlord's maintenance duties, if the deal is made in good faith and subject to the anti-waiver rule. The only prescribed form anywhere near a Mississippi letting belongs to a licensed broker, not to the landlord.

Listed, but not a general duty counted above:

Mississippi Real Estate Commission agency disclosure form — a state-prescribed document to be handed over or attached; issued by the Mississippi Real Estate Commission. Where a licensed real estate broker acts in the letting, the broker must disclose in writing, on the Commission's own agency disclosure form, whom the broker represents: to the broker's own client before an agreement for representation is entered into, and to the other party at the time of the first substantive meeting. The Commission's rules reach leases because a client or customer is defined to include a landlord or tenant and single agency is defined to cover a lessor or lessee. The form may be duplicated in content and size but not altered. Transactions with corporations, limited liability companies, partnerships, real estate investment trusts, trusts and governmental entities are exempt. This is a duty on the licensee rather than on the landlord, and what it discloses is the brokerage relationship rather than the owner's identity, so it is listed here and is not counted as a general duty. Revision: The rules prescribing the form were last amended January 21, 2025, the date the Secretary of State's administrative code records for that Part; the rule text fixes no separate edition for the form itself and forbids altering its content and size. Given before signing, handed over. Threshold: Only where a licensed broker or salesperson acts in the letting. Agency page. (Miss. Admin. Code tit. 30, pt. 1601, rr. 4.2(C), (E), (I), 4.3(A), (B), (H), 4.4)
Move-in condition report

No.

Mississippi requires no move-in condition report, checklist or inventory, and nothing in the Residential Landlord and Tenant Act mentions one. There is no signature requirement, no right to see a prior tenant's damage list, and no condition report a landlord must complete before deducting from a deposit. The deposit statute works at the other end of the tenancy instead: a landlord who claims any part of a deposit must do so by written notice to the tenant itemizing the amounts claimed, and must return the rest no later than forty-five days after the tenancy ends, possession is delivered and the tenant demands it, with damages of up to two hundred dollars on top of actual damages where the retention is in bad faith. See the security-deposits page.
Hazard disclosures

No in-force state hazard disclosure duty applies at signing beyond the federal lead-paint rule. No state duty exists for lead, mold, bed bugs, radon, methamphetamine, asbestos, or any other hazard.

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

Lead (state add-on to the federal rule) — no state duty. Mississippi adds nothing to the federal lead-paint disclosure rule. The state's lead law is the Lead-Based Paint Activity Accreditation and Certification Act, which accredits training programs and certifies the individuals and firms that inspect, assess, abate or renovate older housing, and sets work-practice standards for them. Its only mentions of an owner are exemptions from that certification regime, not duties, and one of those, a renovation opt-out where the owner lived in the dwelling and no young child or pregnant woman lived there, was removed in 2013. The words landlord, lessor, tenant and rental do not appear in the act at all.

Mold — no state duty. Mississippi has no indoor-mold law of any kind: no disclosure, no remediation standard, no licensing of mold contractors and no rule in the state's administrative code. Nothing at all is owed to a tenant about mold at signing or afterwards.

Bed bugs — no state duty. The words bed bug appear nowhere in Mississippi's statutes or in its administrative code, and no bill proposing a bed-bug duty has been introduced in any session since 2008. There is no disclosure, no notice and no treatment duty specific to them.

Radon — no state duty. Mississippi has no indoor-radon program to disclose from. The only places radon appears in state law are radiation-physics definitions in the health department's radiological-health rules. Eleven bills between 2009 and 2019 would have required the Commission on Environmental Quality to adopt radon-control rules, and every one of them died in committee; none has been refiled since 2019.

Methamphetamine — no state duty. Mississippi requires no disclosure that a property was used to make methamphetamine, and, unlike several other states, it does not bar renting one either. Its methamphetamine law is entirely criminal, in the Uniform Controlled Substances Law, and there is no decontamination standard and no clean-up certificate. The legislative record is unusually clear: eleven measures between 2008 and 2012 would have required a seller or transferor to disclose a methamphetamine history, some of them setting a decontamination standard, and every one died in committee, with no refile since 2012. The nearest thing in Mississippi law is a carve-out from the state's non-disclosure immunity, which does not shield illegal drug activity that affects the property's physical condition; that is a limit on an immunity, not a duty to speak.

Asbestos — no state duty. No Mississippi statute or rule requires an asbestos disclosure to a tenant. The state's asbestos law is the Asbestos Abatement Accreditation and Certification Act, a certification regime for the people who do abatement work, amended in 2025 to recognize additional training and align with the federal standards. Its only notification duty runs to the state commission, two working days before flooring abatement, and the words landlord, lessor and tenant do not appear in it.

Other hazard notices (pesticide, ordnance, pool, detectors) — no state duty. Mississippi requires no pesticide-application notice, no military ordnance or noise-zone notice, no pool-safety notice, no pest-control-contract disclosure and no smoke or gas detector notice to a tenant. The one statute outside the landlord-tenant chapters that binds the owner of a multiunit rental complex, the pool safety act, imposes physical duties only: pool yard enclosures, self-closing and self-latching gates, keyed dead bolts, keyless bolting devices, latches and security bars on doors and windows opening into a pool yard, inspection at least once every thirty-one days, and repair of those devices after the tenant reports a fault. The only information the act moves runs from the tenant to the owner, never the other way.
Flood disclosure

No.

Mississippi has no flood disclosure to renters, which is worth stating plainly for a Gulf Coast state: no flood zone, no flooding history, no elevation and no insurance advisory. The word flood does not appear anywhere in either of the state's landlord-tenant chapters, no rule in the state's administrative code requires one, and no measure proposing one has been introduced in any session since 2008. On the sale side the property condition disclosure statement reaches a lease only where the lease carries an option to purchase and a licensed broker or salesperson is involved, so it never reaches a plain letting.
Disclosures about the property's situation Mississippi requires no location disclosure to a tenant: no sex-offender registry notice, no military airport or noise-zone notice, no ordnance notice, no disclosure of a death in the unit, no demolition-intent notice, no condominium-conversion notice and no notice of a pending foreclosure or sale. The one disclosure regime in this area is the property condition disclosure statement, and it is a sale instrument with a narrow lease edge. It applies only to transfers by sale, exchange, installment land sale contract, lease with an option to purchase, any other option to purchase, or a ground lease coupled with improvements, of real property on which a dwelling is located or a residential stock cooperative of not less than one and not more than four dwelling units, and then only where the transfer is executed by, or with the aid of, a duly licensed real estate broker or salesperson. A plain residential lease is outside it, and so is a lease with an option where no licensee is involved. The chapter further excludes court-ordered, foreclosure, fiduciary, co-owner, spousal and lineal, divorce-decree and governmental transfers, and transfers of land with no dwelling on it. Mississippi's other rule in this area runs the other way: it tells owners and brokers what they need not disclose, and it is described in the row below.
What need not be disclosed

Yes — of the facts the rule names, some need not be disclosed and no cause of action arises from not disclosing some, each as stated here.

Mississippi has an unusually broad non-disclosure statute, and, unlike most of its kind, it says on its face that it reaches leases. Three sets of facts are declared not to be material facts that must be disclosed in a real estate transaction: that the property is or was the site of a natural death, suicide, homicide or felony crime, except for illegal drug activity that affects the physical condition of the property, its physical environment or the improvements on it; that it was the site of an act or occurrence that had no effect on its physical condition, environment or improvements; and that it was owned or occupied by a person affected by or exposed to any disease not known to be transmitted through common occupancy of real estate, including HIV and AIDS. Failing to disclose any of those gives rise to no criminal, civil or administrative action against the owner, a licensed broker or an affiliated licensee. The same protection covers information provided or maintained under the state's sex-offender registration law, in both directions: no action lies against an owner or licensee for not revealing it, and none lies against a licensee for revealing it to a seller or buyer. But that paragraph carries a duty inside it — any factors related to it that are known to a property owner or a licensee must be disclosed if a consumer asks. That duty binds the owner as well as the broker, fires only on a request, and has no form, no timing and no stated penalty. Finally, and this is the limb that reaches renting, failure to disclose any of these facts is not a ground for terminating or rescinding any transaction in which real property has been or will be transferred or leased. What the statute does not protect is a lie: it does not preclude an action against an owner who makes an intentional or fraudulent misrepresentation in answer to a direct inquiry about facts that are not material to the property's physical condition.
Utility, fee and payment disclosures No statutory disclosure of this kind
Lease clauses that are void or prohibited

No enumerated list — Mississippi has no roster of prohibited lease clauses. What it has is a single sentence of general anti-waiver with a two-item appendix: in any agreement for the rental of a dwelling, oral or written, neither landlord nor tenant may waive or forego any of the rights, duties or remedies the Residential Landlord and Tenant Act gives, except where the Act itself allows it, and no rental agreement may provide that either party authorizes a confession of judgment on a claim arising out of the agreement, or agrees to exculpate or limit the landlord's liability arising from the landlord's willful misconduct. That section has never been amended since it was enacted in 1991. The narrowness of the exculpation limb is the single most misstated point in Mississippi lease law: it bars exculpation only for willful misconduct, so a residential lease may validly exculpate a landlord for ordinary negligence, and any comparison that prints Mississippi as voiding exculpatory clauses without that qualifier is wrong. Two further waiver bars sit outside that section: the right of a lessee's cosigner to terminate on the death of all lessees cannot be waived by contract or otherwise, for leases entered into or renewed since July 1, 2011, and the pool safety act's inspection, repair and maintenance duty cannot be waived at all, though a tenant may enlarge it by written agreement.

Sanction as the statute states it: Nothing follows beyond the clause not working. The anti-waiver section states no damages figure, no multiple of rent, no voidability of the lease, no agency enforcement, no cure window and no fee shift; the prohibited provision is simply barred and the waiver simply does not take effect. The one provision that spells out a consequence says the same thing in words, that the attempted waiver is void and unenforceable.

The general provisions:

• Any agreement, oral or written, for the rental of real property as a dwelling place by which a landlord or tenant waives or otherwise foregoes any of the rights, duties or remedies under the Residential Landlord and Tenant Act, except as that chapter itself allows (section 89-8-5).

• A provision authorizing any person to confess judgment on a claim arising out of the rental agreement (section 89-8-5, paragraph (a)).

• A provision by which the tenant or the landlord agrees to the exculpation or limitation of any liability of the landlord arising as a result of the landlord's willful misconduct, or the costs connected with it (section 89-8-5, paragraph (b)).

• Any attempted waiver, by contract or otherwise, of a cosigner's right to terminate the lease on the death of all lessees, which is void and unenforceable for leases entered into or renewed on or after July 1, 2011 (section 89-8-29, subsections (4) and (5)).

• Any waiver of an owner's or property owners association's duty of inspection, repair and maintenance under the pool safety act, which may not be waived under any circumstances and may be enlarged only by written agreement with a tenant or occupant of a multiunit rental complex or a member of the association (section 45-43-19, subsection (4)).
Attorney-fee clauses

No statute addresses attorney-fee clauses in residential leases as such.

Mississippi has no attorney-fee rule for residential leases. There is no reciprocity statute converting a landlord's fee clause into a mutual one, no statutory award to a prevailing party, no cap, and no bar on a one-way landlord fee clause, so such a clause stands. The word attorney appears three times in the state's two landlord-tenant chapters and never in a fee-shifting sense: once in the distress-for-rent complaint provision and twice inside a statutory form of affidavit. The only fee rule that touches a residential tenant sits in the pool safety act and does not reach a lease dispute: in an action by a tenant under that act the tenant may recover attorney fees where the actual damages were caused by the owner's intentional, malicious or grossly negligent actions, and on the separate civil-penalty limb, which carries a penalty of up to five thousand dollars where the owner fails to comply within a reasonable time after written notice from a tenant, the court may award reasonable attorney fees and costs to whichever party prevails.
When, how, and what happens on a failure There is nothing to time. Mississippi imposes no disclosure at or before signing, so the topic has no trigger list, no deadline, no acknowledgment, no recurring or annual notice and no notice when the property changes hands. What the Act does say is how its own notices travel. They are written, with a consent-gated electronic alternative whose condition is not uniform: a notice of breach may go by electronic mail or text message only if the breaching party has agreed in writing to be notified that way; a termination notice for a breach may go that way if the tenant has agreed, with no writing required for the agreement; and a notice ending a week-to-week or month-to-month tenancy must be written, with no electronic route at all. Notice given to the landlord's agent counts as notice to the landlord. The only later-information rule in the Act concerns the landlord's house rules: a rule adopted or amended after the tenant signs binds only if the tenant is given reasonable notice of it and it does not substantially modify the rental agreement, and no form, deadline or penalty attaches to that notice. On remedies the honest statement is that there is no disclosure duty to breach, so no disclosure remedy exists; and the anti-waiver section states no consequence of its own. The Act's general architecture is termination plus preserved remedies: the party not in breach may end the tenancy as the chapter provides or resort to any other remedy at law or in equity the chapter does not prohibit, rights and remedies outside the chapter are expressly preserved, and every duty under the chapter, and every act that must be performed before a right or remedy is exercised, carries an obligation of good faith.
Can cities add their own rules

State law says nothing either way about local lease-disclosure or lease-content rules.

Mississippi's only express preemption in this area is about rent, and about nothing else. A municipality may not, without prior legislative approval, regulate directly or indirectly the amount of rent charged for leasing private residential property in which the municipality has no property interest, unless another statute specifically authorizes it; the county statute carries the same words with county substituted. Rent caps belong to the rent-increase page; the preemption is recorded here because it is what the state has said. On lease disclosure and lease content the state says nothing either way: no statute preempts a municipal ordinance on the subject and none authorizes one, and home rule for both cities and counties is granted subject to being not inconsistent with the state constitution, the Mississippi Code or any other statute or law. Rental registration and inspection licensing are not preempted by statute either, and a city has tried it: Madison's rental inspection program survived a challenge under the rent-preemption clause in the Court of Appeals, but that decision was reversed, and the Supreme Court struck the program's inspection provisions on constitutional search grounds without reaching the preemption question. One local floor exists: the pool safety act supersedes common law and local and agency regulation, except to the extent a local or state regulation or ordinance imposes a stricter standard, and it preserves municipal pool-enclosure height requirements adopted before July 1, 2012. The Act separately lets a county, municipality or housing authority contract with tenant management organizations to run and sell public housing units, which is an enabling power over public housing, not an ordinance power over private leases. No Mississippi city carries a lease-disclosure 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 Crook v. City of Madison, 168 So. 3d 930 (Supreme Court of Mississippi; 2015; residential setting; bears on local authority to add rules): A landlord was prosecuted for renting houses without a license under a city rental inspection program. The court held the program's inspection provisions constitutionally defective because, although it contained a warrant provision, that provision allowed a warrant to be obtained by the terms of the rental license, lease or rental agreement, a standard less than probable cause; the convictions were reversed and a judgment of acquittal rendered. The court did not reach the statute barring local regulation of the amount of rent, which appears in the opinion only in the recital of the arguments made below.

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

Mississippi hazard disclosures at a glance

No row below is an in-force state duty to disclose, hand over, attach or post a hazard notice; the federal lead-paint rule still applies to 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 None — — —
Radon None — — —
Methamphetamine None — — —
Asbestos None — — —
Other hazard notices (pesticide, ordnance, pool, detectors) None — — —

Documents named in the required-statements row: Mississippi Real Estate Commission agency disclosure form (Mississippi Real Estate Commission) — listed, not counted.

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: Mississippi 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 Mississippi require a landlord to give the tenant a written statement of tenant rights?
No. Mississippi prescribes no tenant-rights statement, no summary of the Residential Landlord and Tenant Act, no agency form a landlord must hand over, no model lease and no words a residential lease must contain. There is no duty even to tell a tenant where the Act can be read.
Does a Mississippi landlord have to disclose the owner's name and address?
No. Mississippi requires nothing. There is no duty to tell a tenant who owns the building or who manages it, no agent-for-service designation, no posting, no unit threshold and no statewide landlord or rental registration.
Is a move-in inspection checklist required in Mississippi?
No. Mississippi requires no move-in condition report, checklist or inventory, and nothing in the Residential Landlord and Tenant Act mentions one. There is no signature requirement, no right to see a prior tenant's damage list, and no condition report a landlord must complete before deducting from a deposit.
What hazards must a Mississippi landlord disclose to a tenant?
No in-force state hazard disclosure duty applies at signing beyond the federal lead-paint rule. No state duty exists for lead, mold, bed bugs, radon, methamphetamine, asbestos, or any other hazard.
Does Mississippi require flood disclosure to renters?
No. Mississippi has no flood disclosure to renters, which is worth stating plainly for a Gulf Coast state: no flood zone, no flooding history, no elevation and no insurance advisory. The word flood does not appear anywhere in either of the state's landlord-tenant chapters, no rule in the state's administrative code requires one, and no measure proposing one has been introduced in any session since 2008.
Does Mississippi void or prohibit specific lease clauses?
No enumerated list — Mississippi has no roster of prohibited lease clauses. What it has is a single sentence of general anti-waiver with a two-item appendix: in any agreement for the rental of a dwelling, oral or written, neither landlord nor tenant may waive or forego any of the rights, duties or remedies the Residential Landlord and Tenant Act gives, except where the Act itself allows it, and no rental agreement may provide that either party authorizes a confession of judgment on a claim arising out of the agreement, or agrees to exculpate or limit the landlord's liability arising from the landlord's willful misconduct.

Citations

How this record was verified: The statute text for Mississippi's two landlord-tenant chapters comes from a saved copy of the State of Mississippi's official public-access code service, read section by section on August 20, 2026: chapter 89-7 (sixty-three sections) and chapter 89-8 (twenty-three sections), eighty-six section documents in all, each carrying the currency line "Current with legislation from the 2026 Regular Session." Every section quoted here was located in that text first, and a section absent from it is not treated as absent from the code. Statute text outside those chapters was read from the enacting acts on the Legislature's own host: §§ 89-1-501 and 89-1-527 from 2005 House Bill 1470 as sent to the Governor, approved March 14, 2005; § 21-17-5 from Laws 2016, chapter 327; § 19-3-40 from Laws 2012, chapter 478; chapter 45-43 from Laws 2012, chapter 508; the lead certification act from Laws 2009, chapter 427 and Laws 2013, chapter 338; the asbestos certification act from Laws 2025, chapter 350; and § 15-3-1 from 2009 House Bill 1317 as introduced, on the limb that amending bill did not touch, with the Legislature's per-session code-section index confirming that no enacted measure has touched the section in any session it covers. Administrative rules come from the Mississippi Administrative Code published by the Office of the Secretary of State, the official registrar of agency rules, which carries no single register-date banner; currency is per Part and each Part's last-amended date is recorded. The whole code was enumerated agency by agency through the Secretary of State's own code search service, 145 agencies of which 102 publish rules, 807 Parts, and the four Parts that could plausibly have carried a hazard duty plus the Real Estate Commission's Part were read in full. Enactment currency rests on the Legislature's own Report of All Measures, an enumerated roll rather than a keyword scan, for every session on the host from 2008 through 2026 including five extraordinary sessions, 65,498 measures each carrying its own last-action line, plus per-section index queries for each out-of-chapter section relied on and the official sent-to-Governor act documents for every measure that mattered. The 2026 regular session adjourned April 15, 2026 with no carryover; the 2026 first extraordinary session, which falls after the code's currency date, was enumerated separately and its eight measures concern youth courts and appropriations only. Crook v. City of Madison, 168 So. 3d 930 (Miss. 2015), was read in full in the archived official reporter text, together with the 2014 Court of Appeals decision it reversed, which is recorded as reversed and not relied on. Verified September 13, 2026.

What was read to state each absence on this page: