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Eviction Notice Periods by State

Across the {VERIFIED_STATES} states verified against official statutes, eviction notice periods run from 24 hours to 90 days: the median is 5 days for unpaid rent, 7 days for a lease violation and 30 days to end a month-to-month tenancy. Every period carries its statute citation and a link to the archived official text.

One row per state, one column per notice type. Each cell shows the verified notice period and its statute, with a link to the archived official text under /sources/. A cell marked not sourced means no notice of that type has been verified for that state yet.

State Unpaid rent (pay or quit) Lease violation (cure or quit) End of a month-to-month tenancy (no fault)
Alabama 7 court daysAla. Code § 35-9A-421(b) — source 7 court daysAla. Code § 35-9A-421(a), (d) — source 30 daysAla. Code § 35-9A-441(b) — source
Arizona 5 daysA.R.S. § 33-1368(B) — source 10 daysA.R.S. § 33-1368(A) — source 30 daysA.R.S. § 33-1375(B) — source
Arkansas 5 daysA.C.A. § 18-17-701(b) — source 14 daysA.C.A. § 18-17-701(a) — source 30 daysA.C.A. § 18-17-704(b) — source
California 3 court daysCal. Code Civ. Proc. § 1161(2) — source 3 court daysCal. Code Civ. Proc. § 1161(3) — source 30 daysCal. Civ. Code § 1946.1(c) — source
60 daysCal. Civ. Code § 1946.1(b) — source
Colorado 10 daysColo. Rev. Stat. § 13-40-104(1)(d) — source 10 daysColo. Rev. Stat. § 13-40-104(1)(e) — source 21 daysColo. Rev. Stat. § 13-40-107(2) — source
Florida 3 daysFla. Stat. § 83.56(3) — source 7 daysFla. Stat. § 83.56(2)(b) — source
7 daysFla. Stat. § 83.56(2)(a) — source		 30 daysFla. Stat. § 83.57(3) — source
Georgia 3 court daysO.C.G.A. § 44-7-50(c) — source not sourced 60 daysO.C.G.A. § 44-7-7 — source
Illinois 5 days735 ILCS 5/9-209 — source 10 days735 ILCS 5/9-210 — source 30 days735 ILCS 5/9-207(b) — source
Indiana 10 daysInd. Code § 32-31-1-6 — source not sourced 1 monthInd. Code § 32-31-1-1(a) — source
Louisiana 5 daysLa. C.C.P. art. 4701 — source 5 daysLa. C.C.P. art. 4701 — source at least 10 days before the end of the monthLa. Civ. Code art. 2728(2) — source
Maryland 10 daysMd. Code, Real Prop. § 8-401(c) — source 30 daysMd. Code, Real Prop. § 8-402.1(a)(1) — source 60 daysMd. Code, Real Prop. § 8-402(c)(2) — source
Michigan 7 daysMCL 600.5714(1)(a) — source 7 daysMCL 600.5714(1)(d) — source
24 hoursMCL 600.5714(1)(b) — source		 1 monthMCL 554.134(1) — source
Mississippi 3 daysMiss. Code Ann. § 89-8-13(5)(a) — source 14 daysMiss. Code Ann. § 89-8-13(3) — source 30 daysMiss. Code Ann. § 89-8-19(3) — source
Missouri not sourced not sourced 1 monthMo. Rev. Stat. § 441.060 — source
Nebraska 7 daysNeb. Rev. Stat. § 76-1431(2) — source 30 daysNeb. Rev. Stat. § 76-1431(1) — source
5 daysNeb. Rev. Stat. § 76-1431(4) — source		 30 daysNeb. Rev. Stat. § 76-1437 — source
New Jersey not sourced 1 monthN.J.S.A. 2A:18-61.1(d)-(e), 2A:18-61.2(b) — source
3 daysN.J.S.A. 2A:18-61.1(b)-(c), 2A:18-61.2(a) — source		 1 monthN.J.S.A. 2A:18-56(b) — source
New Mexico 3 daysNMSA 1978, § 47-8-33(D) — source 7 daysNMSA 1978, § 47-8-33(A) — source 30 daysNMSA 1978, § 47-8-37 — source
New York 14 daysRPAPL § 711(2) — source not sourced 30 daysRPL § 226-c(2)(b) — source
60 daysRPL § 226-c(2)(c) — source
90 daysRPL § 226-c(2)(d) — source
Ohio 3 daysOhio Rev. Code § 1923.04(A) — source 3 daysOhio Rev. Code §§ 1923.02(A)(9), 1923.04(A) — source 30 daysOhio Rev. Code § 5321.17(B) — source
Oregon 10 daysORS 90.394(2)(a) — source 30 daysORS 90.392(3)-(4) — source 30 daysORS 90.427(2)-(3) — source
90 daysORS 90.427(5)-(6) — source
Pennsylvania 10 days68 P.S. § 250.501(b) (Landlord and Tenant Act of 1951, § 501) — source 15 days68 P.S. § 250.501(b) — source
30 days68 P.S. § 250.501(b) — source		 15 days68 P.S. § 250.501(b) — source
30 days68 P.S. § 250.501(b) — source
Tennessee 14 daysTenn. Code Ann. § 66-28-505(a)(2) — source 14 daysTenn. Code Ann. § 66-28-505(a)(2)–(3) — source
3 daysTenn. Code Ann. § 66-28-517(a) — source		 30 daysTenn. Code Ann. § 66-28-512(b) — source
Texas 3 daysTex. Prop. Code § 24.005(a) — source 3 daysTex. Prop. Code § 24.005(a) — source 1 monthTex. Prop. Code § 91.001(b) — source
Virginia 14 daysVa. Code § 55.1-1245(F) — source 21 daysVa. Code § 55.1-1245(A) — source 30 daysVa. Code § 55.1-1253(A) — source
Washington 14 daysRCW 59.12.030(3) — source 10 daysRCW 59.12.030(4) — source
3 daysRCW 59.12.030(5) — source		 60 daysRCW 59.18.650(1)(b)-(c) — source
Wisconsin 5 daysWis. Stat. § 704.17(2)(a) — source
5 daysWis. Stat. § 704.17(1p)(a) — source		 5 daysWis. Stat. § 704.17(2)(b) — source
5 daysWis. Stat. § 704.17(1p)(b) — source		 28 daysWis. Stat. § 704.19(3) — source

Counting rules differ by state: court days exclude weekends — and judicial holidays in California; 1 month is a civil month from service; Louisiana requires notice at least 10 days before the end of the month. The exact rule is stated on each state's page.

Shortest, longest and median periods

Unpaid rent (pay or quit)

  • Shortest: 3 court days — California (Cal. Code Civ. Proc. § 1161(2))
  • Longest: 14 days — New York (RPAPL § 711(2))
  • Median: 5 days
  • States counted: 24

Lease violation (cure or quit)

  • Shortest: 24 hours — Michigan (MCL 600.5714(1)(b))
  • Longest: 30 days — Maryland (Md. Code, Real Prop. § 8-402.1(a)(1))
  • Median: 7 days
  • States counted: 22

End of a month-to-month tenancy (no fault)

  • Shortest: at least 10 days before the end of the month — Louisiana (La. Civ. Code art. 2728(2))
  • Longest: 90 days — New York (RPL § 226-c(2)(d))
  • Median: 30 days
  • States counted: 26

Statistics computed only on sourced cells. For comparability, a one-month notice counts as 30 days and Louisiana's end-of-month rule as its 10-day legal minimum; court-day periods are compared at their legal day count, knowing the real calendar duration is longer.

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One row per notice: state, notice type, title, period in days, counting rule, statute citation, official source and verification date.

Methodology

Every period in this table was read in the official statute text of the state — legislature website or official code portal — never copied from a secondary compilation. The archived text each figure was read from is kept under /sources/ and linked from every cell. Where a legislature site was unreachable, the text was read on a dated archived copy of the official page, and the cell says so.

States not yet covered — listed openly rather than guessed: Alaska, Connecticut, Delaware, District of Columbia, Hawaii, Idaho, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Maine, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Montana, Nevada, New Hampshire, North Carolina, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Utah, Vermont, West Virginia and Wyoming. Each new state verified against its official text is added to this table automatically, with its own verification date.

Questions about these eviction notice periods

What is the most common eviction notice period for unpaid rent?

Across the 26 states verified against official statutes, the median notice period for unpaid rent is 5 days. Three days is the most frequent requirement — used in California, Texas, Florida, Georgia, Ohio, Mississippi and New Mexico — while New York, Virginia and Tennessee require 14 days. Each period in the table links to the archived official statute text it was read from.

Which state gives tenants the shortest eviction notice?

The shortest verified period is Michigan's 24-hour notice to quit for unlawful controlled-substance activity, which requires a formal police report to have been filed (MCL 600.5714(1)(b)). Outside that special case, the shortest general notices are 3 days, for example in Texas (Tex. Prop. Code § 24.005(a)) and Mississippi (Miss. Code Ann. § 89-8-13(5)(a)).

Which state gives tenants the longest eviction notice?

The longest verified period is 90 days: New York requires 90 days to end a tenancy of two years or more without cause (RPL § 226-c(2)(d)), and Oregon requires 90 days for a termination with a qualifying landlord reason after the first year of occupancy (ORS 90.427(5)-(6)). Both are no-fault terminations, not notices for unpaid rent.

Do eviction notice periods count weekends and holidays?

It depends on the state. California and Georgia exclude weekends — California also excludes judicial holidays — from their 3-day periods, and Alabama counts business days for its 7-day notices. Most other verified states count calendar days. The counting rule is shown in each cell of the table and explained in the methodology section below.

Why do some cells in the table say not sourced?

Because an unverified period is worse than no period. A cell only shows a deadline after the official statute text of that state has been read line by line and archived. Where no notice of that type has been verified — for example a lease-violation notice in Georgia — the cell says not sourced rather than repeating a figure from a secondary compilation.

How often is this eviction notice periods table updated?

The table is regenerated from the same verified dataset that powers the notice generator: every time a new state's statute is read and archived, the table, the statistics and the CSV download are rebuilt automatically. Each state row carries its own verification date in the methodology section, so readers can see exactly when each deadline was last checked.

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State pages

Each verified state has a dedicated page with its deadlines, counting rules, service rules and a free notice generator:

Alabama · Arizona · Arkansas · California · Colorado · Florida · Georgia · Illinois · Indiana · Louisiana · Maryland · Michigan · Mississippi · Missouri · Nebraska · New Jersey · New Mexico · New York · Ohio · Oregon · Pennsylvania · Tennessee · Texas · Virginia · Washington · Wisconsin

Coverage summary, with what is verified and what is not: eviction notice requirements by state.

This study is not legal advice. Deadlines and service rules vary, and cities can add their own requirements. Have a local attorney review your notice before serving it.