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

Verified July 11, 2026 All Kansas topics →

Kansas requires only 'reasonable notice' before a landlord enters a rental — no statute fixes a number of hours, and entry must happen at reasonable hours of the day (K.S.A. 58-2557).

Notice does not have to be in writing, and permitted purposes are broad: inspections, necessary or agreed repairs and improvements, supplying services, and showing the unit to prospective buyers, lenders, tenants, or contractors. The no-consent exception is narrower than in most states: a landlord may enter without the tenant's consent only for 'an extreme hazard involving the potential loss of life or severe property damage' — not for garden-variety urgency. Two additional access rights exist: during a tenant absence longer than 30 days the landlord may enter at times reasonably necessary, and once a tenant is 10 days behind on rent and has removed most belongings the landlord may presume abandonment. Remedies run both ways under K.S.A. 58-2571: a tenant who refuses lawful access faces an injunction or lease termination plus actual damages, and a landlord who enters unlawfully, unreasonably, or with harassing repeated demands faces the mirror-image remedies — with no fixed minimum recovery.

Kansas entry notice at a glance

Advance notice required	No fixed statutory period (see notice standard)
Notice standard	K.S.A. 58-2557(a): the landlord may enter 'at reasonable hours, after reasonable notice to the tenant.' No fixed notice period, no writing requirement, and no defined clock hours anywhere in the act. The landlord shall not abuse the right of access or use it to harass the tenant (58-2557(c)).
Permitted reasons	Inspect the premises; make necessary or agreed repairs, decorations, alterations or improvements; supply necessary or agreed services; or exhibit the dwelling unit to prospective or actual purchasers, mortgagees, tenants, workmen or contractors (K.S.A. 58-2557(a)). Separately, during any tenant absence exceeding 30 days the landlord may enter at times reasonably necessary (K.S.A. 58-2565(b)).
Emergency exception	Yes
Time-of-day restrictions	None fixed — entry must be at 'reasonable hours,' which the act does not define. No clock windows exist for any entry type.

Notes and caveats

notice_hours is null with a reasonable-notice standard — confirmed against the statutory text read twice ('at reasonable hours, after reasonable notice,' 58-2557(a)); many landlord guides invent a '24-hour' figure for Kansas that appears nowhere in the act. Points for page copy: (1) the emergency exception (58-2557(b)) is textually narrower than URLTA states — 'extreme hazard involving the potential loss of life or severe property damage' — so convenience or minor-urgency entries do not qualify; (2) Kansas has no showing-window, no notice-form requirement, and no time-of-day clock; (3) the 58-2565(b) extended-absence entry (absence over 30 days, entry 'at times reasonably necessary') and the abandonment presumption (10 days in rent default plus substantial removal of belongings, unless the tenant says otherwise) are commonly missed; (4) remedies under 58-2571 are injunction/termination plus ACTUAL damages only — do not import other states' one-month-rent minimums; the 1½ months' rent remedy in 58-2563 applies to unlawful removal/exclusion or willful utility shutoff, not to simple unlawful entry. No 2025-26 legislation touched entry rules; the biennium adjourned sine die 2026-04-11.

Statute citations

K.S.A. 58-2557 (a)-(c) Official source
K.S.A. 58-2565 (b) Official source
K.S.A. 58-2571 Official source

How this record was verified: Direct read of statute text on the official Kansas Office of Revisor of Statutes site (ksrevisor.gov), each load-bearing section fetched twice by independent methods (WebFetch page read plus raw curl of the same official page, all figures reconciled verbatim): 58-2550 (1-month/1.5-month/half-month pet caps, 14-day and 30-day return clocks, 1.5x penalty), 58-2548 (5-day joint inventory), 58-2557 (reasonable notice/reasonable hours entry), 58-2570 (7-day/30-day/15-day termination notices), 58-2565(b) (30-day absence entry, 10-day abandonment presumption), 58-2564(b) (3-day nonpayment cure), 58-2563 (1.5 months' rent ouster remedy), and 12-16,120 (express local rent-control preemption). Negative checks run against the full Residential Landlord and Tenant Act: all 34 sections (58-2540 through 58-2573) downloaded and searched — no late-fee, grace-period, deposit-interest, escrow/separate-account, or rent-increase-notice provision exists. Pending-bill check 2026-07-11 on kslegislature.gov: 2025-26 biennium adjourned sine die 2026-04-11; HB 2666 (late-fee restrictions), SB 482 (condemned-unit deposit return), and HB 2768 (split rent payments) all died in committee; enacted Sub HB 2357 (eviction expungement) and SB 391 (voucher-mandate preemption) do not affect these four topics.