Mississippi Landlord-Tenant Laws
Mississippi Security deposits
Mississippi sets no cap on security deposits and gives landlords 45 days to return the balance — with the clock defined by three events in the statute: the tenancy terminating, the tenant delivering possession, and the tenant demanding the money back.
Mississippi Rent increase notice
Mississippi has no statute requiring advance notice of a rent increase — the 30-day figure quoted for month-to-month tenancies is derived from Miss.
Mississippi Late fees
Mississippi sets no cap on residential late fees and mandates no grace period — no statute regulates the amount, timing, or structure of late fees at all.
Mississippi Entry notice
Mississippi has no statute requiring landlords to give any notice before entering a rental unit — the Residential Landlord and Tenant Act contains no entry provision of any kind, so access rights are governed entirely by the lease.
How this record was verified: Mississippi's official code compilation is LexisNexis-published and JS-rendered (lexisnexis.com/hottopics/mscode redirects to advance.lexis.com), so verification ran on official fetchable state sources reconciled with mirrors: enrolled session-law texts on the Legislature's billstatus.ls.state.ms.us (SB 2461/Laws 2022 ch. 501 eff. 2022-04-21; SB 2328/Laws 2025 ch. 460 eff. 2025-04-10; HB 1200/Laws 2025 ch. 474 eff. 2025-07-01; SB 2473/Laws 2018 ch. 446 eff. 2018-07-01) plus the MS Attorney General's consumer-guide PDF reproducing the full pre-2022 act text, each load-bearing figure reconciled verbatim against Justia (2025 code edition) and FindLaw (current through 2025-01-01): 45-day deposit return with its three-element trigger and $200 bad-faith penalty (89-8-21, unamended since Laws 1991 ch. 478 — three matching reads), 30-day month-to-month and 7-day week-to-week termination notice (89-8-19, three reads), 3-day nonpayment termination notice and 14-day cure notice (89-8-13, official + mirror), rent-definition late-fee clause (89-8-7(1)(k), official + AG PDF), and the municipal/county rent-regulation preemption clauses (21-17-5(2)(h) and 19-3-40(3)(g), FindLaw + Justia matching verbatim). Negative checks (no deposit cap, no interest/escrow, no entry statute, no late-fee statute, no rent-increase-notice statute) were run against the complete current chapter assembled from the AG PDF (pre-2022 sections) and all amending enrolled acts. Legislature per-section bill indexes swept for every 89-8 section, 2018-2026, and the full 2026 all-measures index searched: no live bills; HB 442, HB 499 and SB 2012 (2026) all died in committee 2026-02-03. A same-day (2026-07-11) in-app browser session reached the official Lexis compilation's search results, sight-confirming the chapter's current compiled span (§§ 89-8-1 — 89-8-45), the verbatim opening text of 89-8-21(1)-(2), and 89-8-13's post-2022 structure including the (5)(a) nonpayment clause; the full-text section pages are CAPTCHA-gated, so complete Lexis sight-reads of 89-8-21/-13/-19 and the 21-17-5(2)(h) lettering remain open carry-forwards, with the encoding resting on the reconciled official sources above.