Mississippi landlord entry laws
How much notice your landlord owes you before coming in, when they may enter without it, and what Mississippi law lets you do about it.
Notice required
No statute
All 23 sections of the Residential Landlord and Tenant Act, Miss. Code ch. 89-8, were read by heading, and § 89-8-23 'Duties of landlord' was read in full. The landlord's duties are limited to building and housing code compliance and maintaining the dwelling, plumbing and heating or cooling in substantially their original condition. There is no access provision.
Why we won't write you a demand letter for Mississippi
Mississippi does not regulate landlord entry by statute.
What to do right now
Read your lease and object in writing. Mississippi gives you no statutory notice right, so any promise in the lease is what you have.
We don't write an entry letter for Mississippi. The reason is above, and it is not a limitation of ours — it is what the law here does and does not give you. If your landlord is also withholding a deposit, charging a late fee the law doesn't allow, or refusing repairs, those are areas where we can send a certified demand on your behalf.
Other Mississippi tenant rights
Landlords who get one of these wrong often get another wrong too.
Entry laws in other states
These rules change at the state line. Every page is checked against that state's own published statute.
About this source: Mississippi publishes bills on its Legislature's site but not the compiled statutes, which it licenses to LexisNexis. This link is the one the Mississippi Legislature gives on its own homepage, under "Mississippi Code" — your state's code of record, on a commercial host, as designated by your legislature. It opens the Code browser rather than one chapter, so browse to Title 89, Chapter 8. Our reading is described above.
How this page was checked
- Read from the source. Every deadline, cap and penalty here was taken from Mississippi's landlord-tenant law — the statute, session law or administrative code itself.
- No legal-information websites. Commercial summaries were used only to find a provision, never as authority for it. An automated check fails our build if any state we serve cites a secondary source.
- Locked against drift. The verified figures are pinned by regression tests, so a later edit cannot quietly change a deadline or a penalty.
- Last verified August 26, 2026. Laws change — confirm the current text before relying on it.
General information, not legal advice. We are not a law firm.
Compare all 51 jurisdictions — notice periods range from 12 hours to 72, and thirteen states have no rule at all.