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

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Utah has no statute requiring advance notice of a rent increase — the 15-day convention comes from Utah Code 78B-6-802(1)(b)(i), under which a month-to-month tenancy can be ended by notice served at least 15 calendar days before the end of the rental period, so a landlord proposing higher rent is effectively offering new terms the tenant can refuse by leaving.

One adjacent rule is real but narrower than often reported: on a month-to-month agreement a landlord must give a 15-day notice before charging a new non-rent fee that is not in the rental agreement (57-22-4(5)(b)(ii)) — that provision governs fees, not rent. There is no cap on the size or frequency of increases: Utah has no rent control, and since 1989 Utah Code 57-20-1 has barred every county, city, and town from controlling rents or fees on private residential property without express legislative approval. Bills to require 60 days' notice of rent increases have failed in every session since 2023 — most recently HB 182 (2025), rejected in committee, and HB 478 (2026), which died without a hearing when the session adjourned in March 2026 — so claims that Utah now requires rent-increase notice are false.

Utah 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 locked for a fixed term unless the lease itself provides otherwise — a contract principle; no statute addresses mid-term or renewal increases. A fixed term simply ends without notice at its expiration date (78B-6-802(1)(a)).
Statewide rent control / stabilization	No
Rent control details	No statewide rent control exists, and Utah Code 57-20-1 (Title 57, Chapter 20, 'Local Rent Control Prohibition') provides that a county, city, or town 'may not enact an ordinance or resolution that would control rents or fees on private residential property unless it has the express approval of the Legislature.' Note the preemption reaches FEES as well as rents — broader than most states — and expressly covers counties, not just municipalities.
Local rent control preempted	Yes
Frequency limits	Not addressed by statute

Notes and caveats

notice_days_month_to_month is null per the derivation convention (TX/GA/NC/AZ/SC/OK precedent): 78B-6-802(1)(b)(i) addresses only termination of periodic tenancies (15 calendar days or more before the end of the month or period, served notice; tenancies at will need not less than 5 calendar days under (1)(b)(ii)) and never mentions rent increases, so the 15-day figure is practice-derived — page copy should present it as such. Page copy should also flag that 15 days is SHORT nationally and that the notice must be served, not merely sent. The 2026 amendment to 78B-6-802 (HB 591, Ch. 401, eff. 5/6/2026) changed only private-nuisance cross-references in (1)(f) and (4); the notice periods are untouched (verified by reading both the current official text and the prior version on a mirror). Dead bills debunked, not flagged (per the dead-bill rule): 2025 HB 182 'Rental Amendments' (Bennion; 60-day rent-increase notice amending 57-22-2/57-22-4; failed House committee 6-6 on 1/31/2025, enacting clause struck 3/7/2025) and 2026 HB 478 'Residential Rental Modifications' (Arthur; rent-increase and fee notice; died 'House/ filed' 3/6/2026 at sine die — Utah bills do not carry over). Misattribution warning: several property-management blogs report HB 182 as enacted effective 5/7/2025 — that date belongs to HB 480 (Ch. 275, electronic deposit returns). rent_control preemption pinned at 57-20-1; the spec's alternate lead 10-8-85.5 was read and is a municipal rental business-licensing section, not rent control.

Statute citations

Utah Code § 78B-6-802 (1)(b)(i) Official source
Utah Code § 57-20-1 (1) Official source
Utah Code § 57-22-4 (5)(b)(ii) Official source

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