How much notice must a landlord give before entering in Georgia?

Verified July 8, 2026 All Georgia topics →

Georgia has no statute setting how much notice a landlord must give before entering a rental unit — no 24-hour rule, no 'reasonable notice' standard, nothing.

The lease governs: landlords should reserve entry rights in writing and follow whatever notice the lease promises, because absent a reserved right the tenant's exclusive possession means an uninvited entry can amount to trespass. In practice Georgia landlords commonly use 24 hours' notice as a professional norm, but that is convention, not law.

Georgia entry notice at a glance

Advance notice required	No fixed statutory period (see notice standard)
Notice standard	Georgia has no statute requiring advance notice before landlord entry, and no statute granting or limiting a general right of entry to occupied premises. The lease controls: a landlord's right to enter for inspections, repairs, or showings exists only to the extent the lease reserves it, and entry rights are otherwise constrained by the tenant's right of possession (an unreserved entry can constitute trespass) and by O.C.G.A. 44-7-14's repair duties, which presuppose access arrangements.
Permitted reasons	As provided in the lease. Georgia landlord-tenant statutes do not enumerate permitted entry reasons for residential rentals.
Emergency exception	Not addressed by statute
Time-of-day restrictions	Not addressed by statute

Notes and caveats

notice_hours is null and notice_standard describes the absence of any statute (same convention as the TX record). emergency_exception is null rather than true because no statute creates one — emergency entry is defended in Georgia on common-law necessity/lease grounds, not statutory ones, and asserting a statutory exception would overstate the law. Page copy should stress lease drafting since the statute supplies nothing.

Statute citations

O.C.G.A. Title 44, Chapter 7 (no entry-notice statute exists; chapter index confirms absence) Unofficial mirror

How this record was verified: Direct read of statute text: O.C.G.A. 44-7-30.1, 44-7-34, 44-7-35, 44-7-36, 44-7-7, and 44-7-19 read in full from the 2024 Code of Georgia (Justia mirror of the official code, which is not deep-linkable on the official legis.ga.gov LexisNexis portal), cross-checked against the official Georgia General Assembly HB 404 (2024 Ga. Laws 392) bill record on legis.ga.gov and the Georgia Appleseed / magistrate-judge bench card summarizing the Safe at Home Act. 44-7-31, 44-7-32, and 44-7-33 mechanics confirmed across the code mirror section listing and multiple consistent secondary sources.