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

Verified July 12, 2026 All Wyoming topics →

Wyoming has no statute requiring landlords to give advance notice before entering a rental unit — no 24-hour rule, no 'reasonable notice' standard, no emergency exception, and no time-of-day window exists anywhere in Wyoming law.

The state's landlord-tenant act approaches entry entirely from the tenant's side: a renter may not unreasonably deny access, refuse entry, or withhold consent when the owner, agent, or manager wants to make repairs, inspect the unit, or show it for rent or sale — and a tenant who unreasonably refuses can be evicted for it, since violating the renter-duties statutes is an express ground for a forcible entry and detainer action. The flip side is that the tenant's protection is only the word 'unreasonably' plus whatever the lease says: a tenant can reasonably push back on a 2 a.m. showing, but no statute compels the landlord to announce entries in advance or penalizes one who does not. Landlords who want a predictable regime should write notice terms into the lease; tenants should know that general trespass and privacy law — not the landlord-tenant act — is what polices a landlord who abuses access.

Wyoming entry notice at a glance

Advance notice required	No fixed statutory period (see notice standard)
Notice standard	No statute requires a Wyoming landlord to give ANY advance notice before entering a rental unit — the Residential Rental Property Act regulates entry only from the tenant's side: no renter shall '[u]nreasonably deny access to, refuse entry to or withhold consent to enter the residential rental unit to the owner, agent or manager for the purpose of making repairs to or inspecting the unit, and showing the unit for rent or sale' (W.S. 1-21-1205(a)(iii)). The practical standard is therefore reasonableness run in reverse: the tenant may reasonably object to a particular entry, and the landlord's remedy for unreasonable refusal is eviction (W.S. 1-21-1002(a)(vi)) — but nothing in Wyoming law obliges the landlord to announce entry in advance, and nothing statutory sanctions a landlord who enters without notice (lease terms and general trespass/privacy law are the only brakes).
Permitted reasons	The tenant's no-unreasonable-denial duty covers three purposes: making repairs to the unit, inspecting the unit, and showing the unit for rent or sale (W.S. 1-21-1205(a)(iii)). The statute does not address entry for other purposes (e.g., supplying services or showing to workers or mortgagees) — those default to the rental agreement and general law.
Emergency exception	Not addressed by statute
Time-of-day restrictions	Not addressed by statute

Notes and caveats

notice_hours null — verified negative on two official endpoints: full Article 12 read on the current LSO Title 1 PDF and on the NXT 2021-titles view (character-identical; § 1-21-1205 has never been amended since the act's 1999 adoption — the brief's '2015+ amendments' check comes back empty, with the whole article unchanged 2021-2025 and no 2025/2026 enactment touching it). A full Title 1 pattern sweep found no other entry provision (the only 'right of entry' elsewhere is § 1-18-111(b), a foreclosure-purchaser rule — unrelated). Wyoming is in the no-entry-statute camp, but with a wrinkle worth rendering: unlike pure-silence states, it has an express TENANT-side duty (1-21-1205(a)(iii)) whose breach is an FED eviction ground (1-21-1002(a)(vi)) — encode as notice_standard, not as notice_hours. The three statutory purposes are narrower than URLTA's list (no 'supplying services', no workers/mortgagees/contractors clause). emergency_exception null rather than true/false: there is no notice requirement for an emergency to except from. Chart trap: sites that print '1-21-1203' as Wyoming's entry statute are miscited — 1-21-1203 is the owner's habitability/repair-duty section (Hemlane 2026 makes exactly this error). Local ordinances: none known; no Wyoming municipality has an entry-notice ordinance per any source found.

Statute citations

Wyo. Stat. § 1-21-1205 (a)(iii) Official source
Wyo. Stat. § 1-21-1002 (a)(vi) Official source
Title 1, ch. 21, art. 12 (LSO NXT infobase view, double-read endpoint — verified negative: no owner-side entry-notice provision) Official source

How this record was verified: Direct read of statute text from the official Wyoming Legislative Service Office statute files (wyoleg.gov/statutes/compress/title01.pdf, title34.pdf, title15.pdf, title40.pdf — the wyoleg.gov site is an SPA that serves its statute PDFs directly to curl; the Title 1 file reflects 2025-session repeals and is current through the 2025 General Session): Title 1 ch. 21 art. 12 (W.S. 1-21-1201 through 1-21-1211) and art. 10 (1-21-1001 through 1-21-1017) read in full, plus W.S. 34-2-126 through 34-2-132. Double-read via a second official endpoint: the LSO NXT infobase ('2021 Titles', wyoleg.gov/NXT/gateway.dll) article views for arts. 12 and 10 — the entire Article 12 text (12,872 normalized characters) is CHARACTER-IDENTICAL between the official 2021 edition and the official 2025 PDF. Deposit figures additionally triple-read against the Wyoming Judicial Branch's TENANT Form 03 instructions (wyocourts.gov, rev. Sept 2024), which reprint W.S. 1-21-1208 verbatim; FED figures corroborated by the Judicial Branch Eviction Handout; FindLaw mirror matched 1-21-1208 and 34-2-128 verbatim (Justia 403s automated fetchers). Verified negatives (no deposit cap, no interest or separate-account rule beyond the express 'without interest' clause, no rent-increase or periodic-termination notice statute, no late-fee cap or grace period, no entry-notice statute, no rent-control or preemption provision) run by full-article reads plus keyword sweeps of Titles 1, 15, 34 and 40 — zero occurrences of 'month-to-month', 'late fee', 'late charge' or 'grace period' in Titles 1/15/34. Mandatory session sweep on the official LSO bill API (lsoservice.wyoleg.gov): all 891 bills of the 2025 General and 2026 Budget Sessions enumerated by short title, and all 278 enacted chapters (171 of 2025, 107 of 2026) separately enumerated — zero on-topic enactments; dead bills 2025 HB0213 (owner utility duties) and 2026 HB0183 (renter tax relief) both 'Did not Consider for Introduction'. The 2026 Budget Session has adjourned; next regular session January 2027.