How many days' notice must a landlord give before raising rent in Louisiana?

No rent-increase statute — notice derives from tenancy-termination rules (see summary).

Does Louisiana preempt local rent control ordinances?

No Louisiana statute expressly addresses local rent control. The constitution bars a parish or municipality from enacting, except as provided by law, an ordinance governing private or civil relationships (La. Const. art. VI, § 9(A)(2)), and a lessor's rights under the Civil Code's lease title may not be altered, abridged or diminished except by state law, subject to the reasonable exercise of the police power (R.S. 9:3258). The codes of New Orleans, Baton Rouge and East Baton Rouge Parish, Shreveport, Jefferson Parish and Lafayette contain no general rent regulation; New Orleans requires units created under its inclusionary zoning program to be offered at an affordable rent (New Orleans Code of Ordinances, sections 26-641 and 26-646).

Can a landlord raise the rent during a fixed-term lease in Louisiana?

Rent is fixed for the term of a fixed-term lease and cannot be raised unilaterally mid-term absent a valid escalation clause. The Civil Code requires the rent to be fixed by the parties in a sum either certain or determinable through a method they agreed, or by a third person they designate, so an escalation clause must meet that test.

How much notice is required to raise the rent in Louisiana?

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Louisiana has no statute requiring advance notice of a rent increase; for month-to-month tenancies the operative rule comes from the Civil Code's termination article, and it is short — ten calendar days before the end of the month.

Cited to La. Civ. Code art. 2728 (2) and 4 more cited sources · Verified October 1, 2026

Because either party may terminate a month-to-month lease on ten days' written notice (Civil Code article 2728), the Attorney General's guide states that the landlord may likewise change the terms — including the rent — on the same ten days' written notice before the end of the month. Rent under a fixed-term lease cannot be raised until renewal unless a valid escalation clause says otherwise, and Louisiana has no statewide rent control — no statute expressly addresses local rent regulation, and the one local rent limit in the codes read is New Orleans's affordable rent for units created under its inclusionary zoning program.

Louisiana rent increase notice at a glance

Notice — month-to-month	No rent-increase statute — notice derives from tenancy-termination rules (see summary)
Varies by increase size	Not addressed by statute
Fixed-term leases	Rent is fixed for the term of a fixed-term lease and cannot be raised unilaterally mid-term absent a valid escalation clause. The Civil Code requires the rent to be fixed by the parties in a sum either certain or determinable through a method they agreed, or by a third person they designate, so an escalation clause must meet that test. The rent must be fixed by the parties in a sum either certain or determinable through a method agreed by them (C.C. art. 2676), and a contract has the effect of law for the parties (C.C. art. 1983). If a lease with a fixed term of a month or longer expires and, without notice to vacate or terminate or other opposition by either party, the lessee stays in possession for one week, the lease is reconducted from month to month on the same terms (C.C. arts. 2721, 2723, 2724), after which the ten-day mechanism applies.
Statewide rent control / stabilization	No
Rent control details	Louisiana has no statewide rent control, and no statute provides for local rent regulation. One local rule limits rents on designated units: New Orleans requires units created under its inclusionary zoning program to be offered at an affordable rent (New Orleans Code of Ordinances, sections 26-641 and 26-646). The closest statute is R.S. 9:3258, which reserves alteration of a lessor's leasing rights to state law but never uses the words 'rent control.' No statewide rent control exists. R.S. 9:3258 (1977) declares that the lessor's rights to dispose of property by lease 'for a valid consideration' — expressly including all rights under the Civil Code's lease title — 'shall not be altered, abridged or diminished except by state law,' subject to the reasonable exercise of the police power. The clause never mentions rent or local governments. Separately, the constitution bars a parish or municipality from enacting, except as provided by law, an ordinance governing private or civil relationships (La. Const. art. VI, § 9(A)(2)), and a lease is one; no statute provides for local rent regulation.
Local rent regulation	No Louisiana statute expressly addresses local rent control. The constitution bars a parish or municipality from enacting, except as provided by law, an ordinance governing private or civil relationships (La. Const. art. VI, § 9(A)(2)), and a lessor's rights under the Civil Code's lease title may not be altered, abridged or diminished except by state law, subject to the reasonable exercise of the police power (R.S. 9:3258). The codes of New Orleans, Baton Rouge and East Baton Rouge Parish, Shreveport, Jefferson Parish and Lafayette contain no general rent regulation; New Orleans requires units created under its inclusionary zoning program to be offered at an affordable rent (New Orleans Code of Ordinances, sections 26-641 and 26-646).
Frequency limits	Not addressed by statute

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Notes and caveats

The ten-day figure is derived, not a rent-increase statute — The month-to-month field is blank because Louisiana has no rent-increase-notice statute. The ten-day figure is C.C. art. 2728(2) termination timing ('In a month-to-month lease, ten calendar days before the end of that month'), applied to rent changes by the Attorney General's guide.
The 30-day claims are not law — No Louisiana statute requires 30 days' notice of a rent increase on a month-to-month lease. The 30-day figures circulating on landlord blogs are 'industry best practice' misrepresented as law.
Confusion trap: art. 2728(1)'s 30 days is for longer terms — The 30-day figure in art. 2728(1) applies only to a lease with an indeterminate term measured by a period longer than a month (year to year, for example); a lease with a fixed term ends when the term expires, without need of notice (art. 2720). It is a common source of confusion with the month-to-month ten-day rule in art. 2728(2).
No statewide rent control — and the statute never says 'rent control' — Local preemption rests on two texts: the constitution's bar on any parish or municipal ordinance governing private or civil relationships except as provided by law (art. VI, § 9(A)(2)), and R.S. 9:3258's except-by-state-law clause for a lessor's lease-title rights, which carries a police-power proviso. Neither names rent control. The one local rent limit in the codes read is New Orleans's inclusionary zoning program, which requires designated units to be offered at an affordable rent (New Orleans Code of Ordinances, sections 26-641 and 26-646).
A residential lease requires a written termination notice — Art. 2729 requires the notice of termination to be in writing when the leased thing is an immovable or a movable used as a residence, whether or not the lease itself is written — the rule that governs the form of a ten-day notice.

Common questions: Louisiana rent increase notice

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How many days' notice must a landlord give before raising rent in Louisiana?: No rent-increase statute — notice derives from tenancy-termination rules (see summary).
Does Louisiana have rent control?: No — Louisiana has no statewide rent control or stabilization. Louisiana has no statewide rent control, and no statute provides for local rent regulation. One local rule limits rents on designated units: New Orleans requires units created under its inclusionary zoning program to be offered at an affordable rent (New Orleans Code of Ordinances, sections 26-641 and 26-646). The closest statute is R.S. 9:3258, which reserves alteration of a lessor's leasing rights to state law but never uses the words 'rent control.'
Does Louisiana preempt local rent control ordinances?: No Louisiana statute expressly addresses local rent control. The constitution bars a parish or municipality from enacting, except as provided by law, an ordinance governing private or civil relationships (La. Const. art. VI, § 9(A)(2)), and a lessor's rights under the Civil Code's lease title may not be altered, abridged or diminished except by state law, subject to the reasonable exercise of the police power (R.S. 9:3258). The codes of New Orleans, Baton Rouge and East Baton Rouge Parish, Shreveport, Jefferson Parish and Lafayette contain no general rent regulation; New Orleans requires units created under its inclusionary zoning program to be offered at an affordable rent (New Orleans Code of Ordinances, sections 26-641 and 26-646).
Can a landlord raise the rent during a fixed-term lease in Louisiana?: Rent is fixed for the term of a fixed-term lease and cannot be raised unilaterally mid-term absent a valid escalation clause. The Civil Code requires the rent to be fixed by the parties in a sum either certain or determinable through a method they agreed, or by a third person they designate, so an escalation clause must meet that test.
How often can a landlord raise the rent in Louisiana?: Not addressed by statute.

Changes since last full verification

The Verified date above (October 1, 2026) marks the last time every figure on this page was verified end-to-end against official sources. The changes below were published since then, each verified against the official source it names (what these dates mean).

Correction, October 2, 2026 — Louisiana (correction): the deposit page had shown the return deadline as 30 days. The statute says within one month after the lease terminates (R.S. 9:3251(A)); the page and the deposit letter tool now show one month, and the tool counts a calendar month where it had added 30 days. The eviction page had shown the deadline for an appeal that suspends the judgment as 1 day; the article says within twenty-four hours of the judgment of eviction (C.C.P. art. 4735), and the page now shows 24 hours. The rent increase page had said no city or parish regulates rents: New Orleans requires units created under its inclusionary zoning program to be offered at an affordable rent (New Orleans Code sections 26-641 and 26-646), and the codes of nine other cities and parishes contain no rent regulation. Also corrected: notice to end the lease of a home must be in writing whether or not the lease itself is written (C.C. art. 2729); the 30-day notice in art. 2728 applies to a lease with no fixed term that runs by a period longer than a month, and a fixed-term lease ends without notice (art. 2720); the owner of land with three or more lots rented for factory-built homes may collect a $25 fee when lot rent is 60 days late and notice has gone to the home's secured parties (R.S. 9:3259.1(D)); taking possession without a judgment after an abandonment still requires the notice to vacate (C.C.P. art. 4731(B)); the self-help repossession statute sometimes cited against landlords belongs to the law on leases of movables (R.S. 9:3329); a court's power to refuse to dissolve a lease rests on C.C. arts. 2013 and 2014; the tenant's duty to allow urgent repairs is art. 2693. Comparisons with other states that no official source supports were removed.

Citations

La. Civ. Code art. 2728 · (2) (verified 2026) Official source
La. Civ. Code art. 2727 (verified 2026) Official source
La. Civ. Code art. 2680 · (2) (verified 2026) Official source
La. R.S. 9:3258 (verified 2026) Official source
La. AG, 'A Guide to Louisiana Landlord & Tenant Laws' (ten-day change-of-terms rule for month-to-month leases, citing C.C. art. 2728) · Terms & Automatic Renewal Clauses (verified 2026) Official source

How this record was verified: Direct read of statute text on the official Louisiana Legislature site (legis.la.gov Law.aspx section pages) for La. R.S. 9:3251-3254 and 9:3258 and Civil Code arts. 2005, 2011, 2012, 2680-2683, 2693, 2695, 2727, and 2728. Enrolled text of 2026 Act No. 63 (HB 292) read in full from the legislature's document server, plus the bill-status page confirming signature 5/11/2026 and 8/1/2026 effective date. Cross-checked against the Louisiana Attorney General's official guide 'A Guide to Louisiana Landlord & Tenant Laws' (La. DOJ Consumer Protection Section), noting that the guide's deposit-penalty figure ($200/actual damages) is stale — superseded by Acts 2018, No. 416. The other 2026 acts on leases (Act 64 on early termination, Act 240 on the Civil Code's lease title, Acts 40 and 113 on legal holidays, Act 127 on notice of a justice of the peace court's judgment and Act 950 on the East Baton Rouge justice courts) change no figure on the deposit, rent increase, late fee or entry pages. September 5, 2026 addendum: the decisive figures touched by the 2025-2026 enactments reviewed that day were re-read on the official host — Civil Code art. 2701, Acts 2026 No. 382 and No. 765, and R.S. 51:911.26 and 51:911.41 on legis.la.gov; the earlier reads stand as recorded. On October 1, 2026 every provision the deposit, rent increase, late fee, entry and eviction answers rest on was read again on legis.la.gov, whose text includes the acts of the 2026 Regular Session: R.S. 9:3201 to 9:3261.2, the Civil Code's lease title (arts. 2668 to 2729) and arts. 2000 to 2014, Code of Civil Procedure arts. 4701 to 4735, 4832 to 4925, 5001 to 5003 and 5059, R.S. 1:55 and La. Const. art. VI, § 9, with the 2025 and 2026 act lists and, for rent regulation, the codes of New Orleans, Baton Rouge and East Baton Rouge Parish, Shreveport, Jefferson Parish, Lafayette, Kenner, Lake Charles, Bossier City, Monroe and Alexandria.