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How much notice is required to raise the rent in North Dakota?

Verified July 11, 2026 All North Dakota topics →

North Dakota landlords must give month-to-month tenants at least 30 days' written notice before the end of a month to raise the rent, under an express change-of-terms statute (N.D.

Cent. Code 47-16-07) that lets the landlord establish new 'terms, rent, and conditions' effective at the expiration of the month if the tenant stays. The 30 days are anchored to month-end: the change takes effect at the expiration of a month, so notice given mid-month operates at the end of the following month if fewer than 30 days remain in the current one. The notice must be in writing but may be served in any reasonable manner that actually informs the tenant. A tenant who receives a change notice has a statutory escape hatch: instead of the usual one-calendar-month termination notice, the tenant may end the tenancy at the end of the month by giving at least 25 days' notice (47-16-15(3)). There is no limit on the size or frequency of increases — North Dakota has no rent control, and state law expressly bars cities and counties from controlling rents on private residential or commercial property.

North Dakota rent increase notice at a glance

Notice — month-to-month 30 days
Varies by increase size Not addressed by statute
Fixed-term leases Rent is fixed by contract for the term; no statute addresses mid-term or renewal increases. Two adjacent rules matter at renewal: an automatic-renewal clause in a residential lease of two months or more is unenforceable unless the landlord gives written notice of the renewal provision (personally or by first-class mail) at least 30 days before the current lease expires — otherwise the lease expires and converts to a month-to-month tenancy (47-16-06.1); and a holdover residential tenant whose rent the landlord accepts is presumed renewed as a month-to-month tenancy rather than for another full term, except under an automatic-renewal clause (47-16-06). Once month-to-month, the 47-16-07 change-of-terms machinery governs increases.
Statewide rent control / stabilization No
Rent control details No rent control exists anywhere in North Dakota, and N.D. Cent. Code 47-16-02.1 expressly forbids it locally: a political subdivision may not enact, maintain, or enforce an ordinance or resolution that would have the effect of controlling the amount of rent charged for leasing private residential or commercial property, except for property in which the subdivision holds a fee title interest.
Local rent control preempted Yes
Frequency limits Not addressed by statute

Notes and caveats

Encoded 30 as an EXPRESS statute (not a termination-derivation null): 47-16-07 names rent — the served notice establishes 'the terms, rent, and conditions specified' — satisfying the dataset's express-coverage test; text verbatim-matched across the official PDF and FindLaw mirror. Render the month-end anchor honestly: the statute requires notice 'at least thirty days before the expiration of the month' with effect 'at the expiration of the month,' not a rolling 30 days. Distinctive companion rules worth rendering: (1) the tenant's 25-day termination right after a change notice (47-16-15(3)) — shorter than the normal one-calendar-month notice; (2) baseline m2m termination is ONE CALENDAR MONTH (47-16-15(2)), a unit distinction from '30 days' (LA-precedent unit note); (3) a lease clause requiring tenant termination notice longer than one month must be separately initialed by the tenant or it collapses to one calendar month (47-16-15(4)). Preemption resolved from 'unclear' in the lead sheet: 47-16-02.1 is an express statewide rent-control preemption with a fee-title carve-out for government-owned property — NJ/MD-style live local control does not exist here. frequency_limits null: verified negative, full chapter sweep. 2025 session: no bill touched 47-16-07, -15, or -02.1.

Statute citations

How this record was verified: Direct read of statute text in the official North Dakota Century Code chapter PDFs on ndlegis.gov (t47c16.pdf read in full, t47c32.pdf sections 47-32-01/-02/-05, t09c08.pdf section 9-08-04), whose official currency page states the posted code reflects all changes approved by the 69th Legislative Assembly, current as of 2025-07-01. Every load-bearing figure (1-month deposit cap; 2-month felony and prior-judgment exceptions; pet deposit greater of $2,500 or 2 months; 30-day itemized return; 9-month interest threshold; treble damages; 30-day written change-of-terms notice covering rent; 25-day tenant termination after a change notice; one-calendar-month m2m termination; no entry-hour figure) was read twice independently — official PDF pass plus codes.findlaw.com mirror pass (current through 2024-01-01), reconciled verbatim, with deposit figures additionally matched against the current-law baseline reprinted in introduced HB 1272 (2025). Amendment history pinned from official session-law PDFs: 2015 ch. 312 (HB 1192, pet deposit subsection), 2017 ch. 316 (HB 1220, felony exception), 2019 ch. 379 (HB 1150, prior-judgment exception). 2025 regular-session sweep via official bill-overview pages: HB 1272 (inspections/deposits) failed House 41-47 on 2025-02-07; SB 2236 (late-fee cap amending 47-16-20) failed Senate 7-39 on 2025-02-04; SB 2237 (labor-commissioner oversight) failed 5-41; SB 2366 (notice of intention to evict) failed 8-37; SB 2238 (eviction-record sealing, now 47-32-05) enacted, signed 2025-03-26 — out of v1 topic scope. January 2026 special session (3 days) was Rural Health Transformation Program only; no regular session in 2026, next regular session January 2027. Negative findings (no late-fee statute, no entry-hour figure, no deposit-interest rate figure, no frequency limits) verified against the complete section-heading list of ch. 47-16 read from the official chapter PDF, run twice.