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

Verified July 9, 2026 All Oklahoma topics →

Oklahoma landlords must give tenants at least one day's notice before entering a rental for inspections, repairs, services, or showings, and may enter only at reasonable times — with no notice needed in an emergency or where giving it is impracticable.

The notice does not have to be in writing under the statute, and no clock hours are fixed: 'reasonable times' is the only limit on when. Landlords may not abuse the access right or use repeated entry demands to harass the tenant; a tenant facing unlawful entry, lawful entry in an unreasonable manner, or harassment can get an injunction or terminate the lease upon written notice, and recover actual damages either way (41 O.S. 124) — though no remedy lies where the landlord was executing an eviction writ. The right runs the other way too: a tenant who refuses lawful access can be compelled by injunction or face termination of the rental agreement, and outside the statutory list the landlord has no right of entry at all during the tenancy except by court order or after abandonment or surrender.

Oklahoma entry notice at a glance

Advance notice required 24 hours
Notice standard 41 O.S. 128(C): 'A landlord shall not abuse the right of access or use it to harass the tenant. Except in case of emergency or unless it is impracticable to do so, the landlord shall give the tenant at least one (1) day's notice of his intent to enter and may enter only at reasonable times.' The statute does not require the notice to be written, and 'reasonable times' is undefined.
Permitted reasons The tenant may not unreasonably withhold consent for the landlord, his agents and employees to enter to inspect the premises, make necessary or agreed repairs, decorations, alterations or improvements, supply necessary or agreed services, or exhibit the unit to prospective or actual purchasers, mortgagees, tenants, workmen or contractors (128(A) — the standard URLTA list). Under 128(D), unless the tenant has abandoned or surrendered the premises, the landlord has NO other right of access during the tenancy except as provided in the act or by court order.
Emergency exception Yes
Time-of-day restrictions None — entry must be at 'reasonable times'; the statute fixes no clock hours.

Notes and caveats

notice_hours encoded as 24 — the statutory phrase is 'at least one (1) day's notice' (128(C)), read verbatim on both official hosts; render on-page as '1 day' to match statutory language, per the established 1-day→24-hours convention. Points a careful page should carry: (1) the notice need not be written — statute silent on form, and secondary sources silently add a writing requirement; (2) the 'unless it is impracticable to do so' carve-out sits alongside emergency in (C) and is broader than emergency-only — usually omitted (same URLTA phrasing as AZ 33-1343(D)); (3) 128(D) makes the access list exhaustive during the tenancy (act, court order, abandonment/surrender) — Oklahoma did NOT adopt the URLTA extended-absence or notice-period free-entry boilerplate; (4) remedies under 124(A) are injunction or termination-upon-written-notice plus ACTUAL damages with no statutory minimum — do not import Arizona's one-month's-rent floor; (5) 124(B) (added 1995) bars any tenant remedy where the entry was execution of a writ under 12 O.S. 1148.10A; (6) 128 has never been amended since 1978, so older secondary sources are not stale on this section.

Statute citations

How this record was verified: Direct read of statute text on two official state hosts: oscn.net (Oklahoma State Courts Network) section pages for 41 O.S. 115, 128, 124, 111, 109, 103, 104, and 131 and for 11 O.S. 14-101.1, cross-checked verbatim against the Oklahoma Legislature's complete-title PDFs (oklegislature.gov/OK_Statutes/CompleteTitles/os41.pdf and os11.pdf), downloaded and text-extracted locally. Every load-bearing figure matched word-for-word across both hosts: the escrow-account requirement, the misappropriation penalty (county jail up to 6 months plus fine up to twice the amount misappropriated), the 45-day return clause with its three triggers (termination of tenancy, delivery of possession AND written demand by the tenant), the 6-month demand window with reversion to the landlord, 'without interest', the 30-day/7-day termination notices of 111(A)-(B), the 'one (1) day's notice ... reasonable times' entry rule of 128(C), and the 5-day pay-or-quit window of 131(B). Negative checks run against the full extracted Title 41 text (both the ORLTA and the pre-1978 provisions): no deposit cap, no deposit interest, no late-fee amount/structure/grace regulation anywhere in the title. Pending-bill check 2026-07-09 via the Legislature's own subject index (Session 2600) plus LegiScan/BillTrack50 statuses: the 60th Legislature's 2026 Regular Session adjourned sine die, killing SB1296 (7%+CPI rent cap with 90-day notice; dead 2026-05-14, never heard in committee) and HB3389 (pet deposit/fee regulation; died in House Rules); no enacted 2026 law touches the four topics.