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Eviction Notice by State

How many days of written notice a landlord must give before filing an eviction, and how that number changes with the reason. For each state, cited to the statute.

All 50 states published. 14 verified against the official statute, the rest cited to corroborating sources while the official portal is confirmed.Eviction notice is never one number: unpaid rent, a lease violation, and a no-cause ending each carry a different period.

Read this first: the notice depends on the reason

There is no single eviction notice period. The number of days a landlord must give depends on why they are ending the tenancy. Unpaid rent usually gets the shortest notice, from a 3-day pay-or-quit in California and Florida to a 5-day notice in Illinois, a 10-day notice in Pennsylvania, and a 14-day rent demand in New York. A fixable lease violation often gets its own, sometimes longer, notice to cure.

Ending a tenancy for no cause is different again, and several states tie it to how long you have lived there: California uses 30 or 60 days, New York 30, 60, or 90. In a few states the lease itself can shorten or waive the notice entirely (Texas and Pennsylvania), so the statutory number is only a starting point. A notice is never the whole story: the landlord still has to file in court and win before anyone can be removed.

Every state in one table

The rent notice, the lease-violation notice, and the no-cause period in each row.

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All states (50)

State	Nonpayment notice	Lease violation	No-cause	Statute
Alabama	7 business days	7 business days	30 days	Ala. Code §35‑9A‑421
Alaska	7 days	10 days	30 days	Alaska Stat. §34.03.220
Arizona	5 days	10 days	30 days	Ariz. Rev. Stat. §33‑1368
ArkansasCited	5 days	14 days	30 days	Ark. Code Ann. §18‑17‑701
California	3 days	3 days	30 / 60 days	Cal. Civ. Proc. Code §1161
Colorado	10 days	3 days	91 days	Colo. Rev. Stat. §13‑40‑104
Connecticut	3 days (after a 9-day grace period)	15 days	3 days	Conn. Gen. Stat. §47a‑23
Delaware	5 days	7 days	60 days	Del. Code Ann. tit. 25, §5502
Florida	3 days	7 days	30 days	Fla. Stat. §83.56
Georgia	3 business days	No fixed period	60 days	O.C.G.A. §44‑7‑50
HawaiiCited	10 calendar days	10 days	45 days	Haw. Rev. Stat. §521‑68
Idaho	3 days	3 days	1 month	Idaho Code §6‑303
Illinois	5 days	10 days	30 days	735 ILCS 5/9‑209
Indiana	10 days (default, the lease can change it)	Varies	1 month	Ind. Code §32‑31‑1‑6
Iowa	3 days	7 days	30 days	Iowa Code §562A.27
Kansas	3 days (5 if mailed)	14 days to cure, 30 to end	30 days	Kan. Stat. Ann. §58‑2564
KentuckyCited	7 days where the Act applies, otherwise set by the lease	14 days	30 days	Ky. Rev. Stat. §383.660
Louisiana	5 days, or none where the lease waives notice	5 days	10 calendar days	La. Code Civ. Proc. art. 4701
Maine	7 days (and only after rent is already 7 days late)	7 days	30 days	14 M.R.S. §6002
Maryland	10 days	Varies	60 days	Md. Code Ann., Real Prop. §8‑401
MassachusettsCited	14 days (with a cure right that runs to the court answer date)	Varies	The rent interval or 30 days, whichever is longer	Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 186, §11
Michigan	7 days	7 days	1 month	Mich. Comp. Laws §600.5714
Minnesota	14 days	Varies	The rent interval or three months, whichever is less	Minn. Stat. §504B.321
Mississippi	3 days	A reasonable time up to 14 days	30 days	Miss. Code Ann. §89‑8‑13
Missouri	None set by statute	Varies	1 month	Mo. Rev. Stat. §535.010
Montana	3 days	14 days	30 days	Mont. Code Ann. §70‑24‑422
Nebraska	7 calendar days	30 days	30 days	Neb. Rev. Stat. §76‑1431
Nevada	7 judicial days (weekends and holidays not counted)	Varies	30 days	Nev. Rev. Stat. §40.2512
New Hampshire	7 days	30 days	30 days	N.H. Rev. Stat. Ann. §540:3
New Jersey	None (no notice required)	1 month	18 months	N.J. Stat. Ann. §2A:18‑61.2
New Mexico	3 days	7 days	30 days	N.M. Stat. Ann. §47‑8‑33
New York	14 days	10 days	30 / 60 / 90 days	N.Y. Real Prop. Acts. Law §711
North Carolina	10 days after demand (only where the lease is silent)	Varies	7 days	N.C. Gen. Stat. §42‑3
North Dakota	3 days (after rent is already 3 days late)	3 days	Varies	N.D. Cent. Code §47‑32‑02
Ohio	3 days	3 days	30 days	Ohio Rev. Code §1923.04
Oklahoma	5 days	15 days	30 days	Okla. Stat. tit. 41, §131
Oregon	10 days (or 13, depending on when the notice is served)	Varies	30 days	Or. Rev. Stat. §90.394
Pennsylvania	10 days	10 days	15 days	68 Pa. Stat. §250.501
Rhode Island	5 days from mailing (and only after rent is 15 days late)	21 days from mailing	30 days	R.I. Gen. Laws §34‑18‑35
South Carolina	5 days, or none where the lease carries the bold-type clause	14 days	Varies	S.C. Code Ann. §27‑40‑710
South DakotaCited	3 days as a waiting period built into the ground	Varies	Set by separate statute	S.D. Codified Laws §21‑16‑1
TennesseeCited	14 days in covered counties, governed by other law elsewhere	14 days	Varies	Tenn. Code Ann. §66‑28‑505
Texas	3 days (default)	3 days (default)	One month	Tex. Prop. Code §24.005
Utah	3 business days	3 calendar days	Varies	Utah Code Ann. §78B‑6‑802
Vermont	14 days	30 days	30 or 60 days	9 V.S.A. §4467
Virginia	14 days	30 days	Varies	Va. Code Ann. §55.1‑1245
WashingtonCited	14 days	10 days	Varies	Wash. Rev. Code §59.18.057
West VirginiaCited	None (no pre-filing notice)	None (no pre-filing notice)	Varies	W. Va. Code §55‑3A‑1
Wisconsin	5 or 14, at the landlord election	5 days	28 days	Wis. Stat. §704.17
WyomingCited	3 days	3 days	Set by separate statute	Wyo. Stat. Ann. §1‑21‑1003

What these pages are, and what they aren't

Each state page is a reference for the eviction notice periods and the neutral steps a tenant can take. They are deliberately not advice for your specific case: your written lease and any local ordinance can change the answer, so each page links to the statute and a tenant-help resource. This is legal information, not legal advice.