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Landlord Entry Notice in Wyoming
How much warning a landlord must give before entering your home in Wyoming, the hours entry is allowed, and what to do if they walk in unannounced, cited to the statute.
The rules and your rights in Wyoming
The notice, the allowed hours, the reasons a landlord may enter, and what to do about an unlawful entry.
Wyoming has no statute that sets how much notice a landlord must give before entering. That means your lease controls, and a city or county ordinance may add its own rule. Read your lease first, then check for a local ordinance where you live.
| Advance notice | No notice period set by state statute |
| Allowed entry hours | Set by your lease. The statute fixes no hours. |
| Reasons a landlord may enter | Wyoming has no statutory list of entry reasons. What the landlord may enter for, and any notice, comes from your lease. If the lease is silent, the landlord generally needs your permission except in a genuine emergency. |
| Emergency entry | Because there is no statutory notice requirement, there is no statutory emergency clause either. Your lease governs entry, and in a true emergency a landlord will act to protect the property. |
| Local ordinance | The statute sets no local rule, so the lease is the main source of any notice. A city ordinance could add one, so check your local code where you live. |
| Statute | No state entry statute |
If the landlord enters unlawfully
Wyoming provides no statutory entry remedy, so a renter route runs through the lease and the right to quiet enjoyment. Document improper entries and ask a local legal aid office which claim fits before you rely on a specific one.
What you can do right now
Concrete, neutral steps if a landlord keeps entering your Wyoming home without proper notice. This is legal information, not legal advice.
- Read your lease access clause first
Wyoming sets no notice period, so the lease is where any rule lives. Find the entry clause and see whether it requires notice, sets hours, or lists reasons the landlord can enter.
- Negotiate a notice clause before you sign
Since no statute gives you a notice period, the time to get one is before signing. Ask for a written clause requiring, for example, 24 hours notice except in emergencies, because that clause is what you can enforce.
- Document every improper entry
Keep a dated log of each entry and any messages. A pattern of unannounced visits can support a claim that the landlord breached the lease or your right to quiet enjoyment.
- Get local help
A local Wyoming legal aid office can tell you whether an improper entry is a lease breach you can act on. Search for legal aid in your area.
This is general legal information, not legal advice. Read your own lease and check for a local ordinance, since either can change what applies to your home.
What Wyoming renters get wrong
Wyoming writes the thinnest landlord and tenant law in the country, and its entry rule fits the pattern by not existing. Its whole eviction notice rule is one sentence about serving a notice to quit three days before filing. Its entry rule is not there at all. The Residential Rental Property Act, at Wyo. Stat. 1-21-1201 through 1-21-1211, sets duties about habitability and deposits and never reaches the front door. For a Wyoming renter the lease is not a supplement to the law, it is the law, so the access clause is the single most important thing to read before signing. That is the honest answer, and it is far more useful than the common shortcut of writing "Wyoming requires reasonable notice," which sounds like law and is not in the code. Because a clean negative means reading the whole article rather than trusting the absence of a search hit, this page is held as cited, but the takeaway does not change: in Wyoming, the lease is the rule.
Common questions
Does Wyoming require notice before entry?
No. The Residential Rental Property Act sets no entry-notice period. Any notice you are owed comes from your lease, so the access clause, not the state code, is where the rule lives.
What should a Wyoming lease say about entry?
Because the lease is the only rule, aim for a clause requiring advance notice, for example 24 hours, at reasonable hours, with the reasons a landlord may enter listed. The time to negotiate it is before you sign.
Is 24 hours the rule in Wyoming?
Not by statute. Wyoming sets no figure at all, so 24 hours applies only if your lease says so. Guides that state a flat Wyoming notice period are describing a common lease term, not the law.
What can I do if there is no clause at all in Wyoming?
With no statute and no lease clause, a landlord generally still needs your permission to enter, except in a genuine emergency, and your protection runs through your right to quiet enjoyment. Document any improper entry and ask a local legal aid office how to raise it.
Not legal advicePlainStatute provides plain-language summaries of public law for general information only. This is not legal advice. Statutes change; always confirm current requirements with the official source linked above before acting.