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Eviction Notice Requirements by State
How much written notice must a landlord give before evicting you — for unpaid rent, a lease violation, or ending a month-to-month tenancy — and can you fix the problem to stop it?
51 of 51 jurisdictions verified
every entry statute-checked, oldest 2026-07-10
What this survey covers
Before a landlord can take a tenant to court to evict them, nearly every state requires a written notice first — and the number of days on that notice, and whether paying or fixing the problem stops the clock, is where the states differ. A "3-day notice to pay rent or quit" in one state is a "14-day" notice in another; a month-to-month tenant gets 30 days' warning in most states, 60 in some, and in a handful of states a landlord now needs a legally recognized "just cause" to end the tenancy at all.
This survey answers one question, state by state: how much written notice must a landlord give before evicting you, and can you stop it by paying or fixing the problem? Each state's page states the rule in plain English, quotes the statute it comes from, and shows the date we last verified the statutory text. It covers STATE law only — many cities and counties, especially those with rent control, add their own stricter notice and just-cause rules that this survey doesn't track. It also stops at the courthouse door: this is about the notice a landlord must give BEFORE filing, not about the eviction lawsuit itself. And note the thing every state agrees on — a landlord cannot lock you out, shut off your utilities, or remove your belongings to force you out; only a court can order an eviction.
How to read the table
Each column is one feature of the state's eviction-notice rule, answered the same way for every state, with the statutory citation compressed into the cell. The notice periods are grouped by WHY the landlord is terminating: unpaid rent, a fixable lease violation, an unconditional quit for serious conduct, and a no-fault end to a month-to-month tenancy. A separate column flags the small but growing group of states that require "just cause" to evict at all. Where a day count excludes weekends and holidays rather than running on calendar days, the cell says so, because that changes the real deadline. Click a state for the full plain-English page: the rule notice-type by notice-type, the traps that get eviction notices thrown out, and the verbatim statutory text with official source links.
Patterns across all 51 jurisdictions
The nonpayment notice is the axis everything turns on, and it runs the full range. At one end, a few states give no statutory chance to pay at all: Wyoming's single 3-day "notice to quit" is a demand to leave, not to pay, and South Dakota has no pay-or-quit notice on the books at all (its old one was repealed in 2024). Several states — New Jersey, Missouri, Louisiana, and Georgia under older leases — follow a "demand" model with no fixed statutory day count. In the middle sits the common band of 3-day (California, Florida, Texas) to 14-day (Washington, New York, Vermont) pay-or-quit periods. And a trap hides inside the number: most states count calendar days, but California, Florida, Alabama, Delaware, and Utah count business days (excluding weekends and holidays), which makes the real deadline longer than a bare "3 days" implies — every cell states the basis.
Most states let a tenant reinstate by paying; a minority do not. Vermont, Maine (until the writ issues), Maryland, Minnesota, Virginia, Washington, Delaware, and Rhode Island all give an express pay-and-stay or redemption right. Wyoming, South Dakota, Oklahoma, and Louisiana do not — paying is at the landlord's discretion. A cure-or-quit period for non-rent lease violations follows the Uniform Residential Landlord and Tenant Act (URLTA) shape (commonly 10–14 days to cure) in the states that adopted it, while a large group — New York, Pennsylvania, Illinois, Texas, North Carolina, and others — provides no separate statutory cure for a lease breach at all.
No-cause termination clusters at 30 days, with real outliers. Utah is short (15 days); Delaware (60-day month-to-month) and Vermont (60 days under two years, 90 days over) are long; Wyoming and South Dakota set no statutory period, leaving it to the lease and common law.
Just cause is the small-but-growing frontier and the currency trap this survey exists to track. The District of Columbia is the strongest: it is a "for cause" jurisdiction where the end of a lease is not itself a reason to evict, and taking a unit back for the owner's own use, a sale, or renovation runs 90 to 180 days. California (repeals Jan. 1, 2030), New York (Good Cause, sunsets 2034), New Jersey, Washington, Oregon, and Colorado have their own statewide regimes; New Hampshire (restricted property only), Rhode Island (foreclosed-property tenants only), and Connecticut (older and disabled tenants in larger buildings) have partial ones. For the clear majority of states there is no statewide just-cause requirement — a month-to-month tenancy can be ended for no reason on proper notice, and any just-cause rule comes from a city ordinance outside this survey's state-law scope. Retaliatory-eviction defenses exist in most states but are absent in Wyoming, South Dakota, Oklahoma, Arkansas, and Louisiana. Several 2025–2026 legislative waves shaped this map — the District's 10-day dangerous-crime notice took effect, Hawaii added a nonpayment mediation step, and Vermont's slate of just-cause and rent-cap bills all died in committee or on the floor — which is exactly why each cell carries the date its statute was last verified.
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| State | Governing law | Notice for unpaid rent | Notice for a lease violation | Unconditional quit (no cure allowed) | Ending a month-to-month tenancy | Just cause to evict required? | How the notice must be served | Tenant's right to cure/reinstate |
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| Alabama verified 2026-07-10 | Alabama Uniform Residential Landlord and Tenant Act (AURLTA), Ala. Code §§ 35-9A-101 to -603 (effective 2007). Landlord's termination notices for lease breach and nonpayment § 35-9A-421; periodic-tenancy termination § 35-9A-441; the Act's general notice-delivery rule § 35-9A-144 (which by its own terms does NOT govern an eviction notice); retaliation defense § 35-9A-501. The eviction suit is a court action for possession under § 35-9A-461 |
7 business days. If rent is unpaid when due, the landlord delivers written notice of the rent and late fees owed and that the tenancy 'will terminate upon a date not less than seven business days after receipt of the notice'; paying within those 7 business days stops it (§ 35-9A-421(b)). Because the count is business days, weekends and holidays are excluded — longer than a bare '7 days' |
7 business days to cure. For a material lease breach, or a noncompliance materially affecting health and safety, the written notice must specify the acts and omissions and set termination 'not less than seven business days after receipt'; remedying it before that date preserves the tenancy (§ 35-9A-421(a)). An intentional misrepresentation of a material fact on the lease or application 'may not be remedied or cured' |
7-day notice, no cure. Certain conduct is a 'noncurable default' — illegal drugs in the unit or common areas, illegal firearm use or discharge, criminal assault of a tenant or guest, or a repeat of substantially the same breach within six months — for which the landlord 'may terminate the rental agreement upon a seven-day notice' and the tenant 'shall have no right to remedy such a default unless the landlord consents' (§ 35-9A-421(d)) |
30 days to end a month-to-month tenancy — written notice by either party 'at least 30 days before the periodic rental date' — and 7 days for a week-to-week tenancy (§ 35-9A-441(a),(b)). No reason need be given |
No statewide just-cause requirement; a periodic tenancy may be ended for no reason on proper notice under § 35-9A-441 (some cities or counties may add their own rules — outside this survey's state-law scope) |
Unusual: the Act's general notice-delivery rule expressly does not reach eviction — § 35-9A-144(e) states 'notice provided in this section does not apply to the notice required to terminate a tenancy or evict a tenant.' The termination statute instead ties the 7-business-day clock to the tenant's actual 'receipt' of the written notice (§ 35-9A-421(a),(b)); the Act sets no single service method for the notice itself, and the eviction lawsuit's summons is served under the court rules |
Pay within the 7 business days (rent) or remedy the breach in that window to stop termination — except for the § 35-9A-421(d) noncurable defaults. Cure is capped: 'no breach... may be cured by a tenant more than two times in any 12-month period' without the landlord's written consent (§ 35-9A-421(d)). Retaliation is a defense — a landlord may not bring or threaten a possession action because the tenant complained to a housing-code agency, complained to the landlord, or joined a tenants' union (§ 35-9A-501) |
| Alaska verified 2026-07-11 | Alaska adopted the Uniform Residential Landlord and Tenant Act (URLTA), AS 34.03. Tenant-fault notices are in AS 34.03.220 — nonpayment in (b); other noncompliance, illegal activity, and utility default in (a) and (e). No-cause termination of a periodic tenancy is AS 34.03.290. The eviction suit is a Forcible Entry and Detainer under AS 09.45.060–09.45.160: AS 09.45.090 lists what counts as unlawful holding, and AS 09.45.100 governs the notice to quit. Retaliation is barred by AS 34.03.310 |
7 days to pay or quit. If rent is unpaid when due, the landlord serves written notice of nonpayment and intent to terminate; the tenancy terminates only if the tenant 'fails to pay rent in full within seven days' (AS 34.03.220(b)). Paying in full within the 7 days stops the eviction. Only one notice per default is required, and the landlord may accept a partial payment and extend the date. Calendar days — but add 3 days if mailed (AS 09.45.090(c)) |
10 days to cure. For a material noncompliance with the lease or the tenant's statutory duties (AS 34.03.120) 'materially affecting health and safety,' the landlord serves a notice to quit specifying the breach and a termination date 'not less than 10 days after service'; if the tenant 'adequately remedies the breach before the date specified,' the tenancy continues (AS 34.03.220(a)(2)). Add 3 days if mailed (AS 09.45.090(c)) |
24 hours to 5 days, no cure, for the most serious conduct: deliberately inflicting substantial damage (loss or defacement over $400) or engaging in/permitting prostitution or other illegal activity at the premises lets the landlord set termination 'not less than 24 hours or more than five days after service' (AS 34.03.220(a)(1)). A repeat of substantially the same noncompliance within six months = at least 5 days, no cure (AS 34.03.220(a)(2)). A tenant-caused utility shutoff = 5-day notice, curable within 3 days by reinstating service and repaying the landlord (AS 34.03.220(e)) |
30 days for a month-to-month tenancy — either party may terminate 'by a written notice given to the other at least 30 days before the rental due date specified in the notice' (AS 34.03.290(b)). A week-to-week tenancy takes 14 days' written notice (AS 34.03.290(a)). No reason is required |
No statewide just-cause requirement — a month-to-month tenancy may be ended for any reason on 30 days' notice (AS 34.03.290(b)). AS 34.03.310(c) lists grounds on which a landlord may recover possession despite a retaliation defense, but it does not require cause to end an ordinary periodic tenancy. Local rules (e.g., the Municipality of Anchorage) may add protections outside this survey's state-law scope |
A notice to quit must be in writing and served by (1) personal delivery to the tenant, (2) leaving it at the premises if the tenant is absent, or (3) registered or certified mail (AS 09.45.100(c)). For nonpayment, the AS 34.03.220(b) written notice itself 'constitutes notice to quit' — no separate notice is needed (AS 09.45.100(b)). Each fault notice must specify the acts or omissions constituting the breach and the termination date. If served by mail, 3 days are added to the period (AS 09.45.090(c)) |
Reinstatement: paying the overdue rent in full within the 7-day period keeps the tenancy (AS 34.03.220(b)); curing a health-and-safety noncompliance before the 10-day termination date does the same (AS 34.03.220(a)(2)). Retaliation is both barred and a defense — a landlord may not bring or threaten a possession action after the tenant complained of a habitability violation (AS 34.03.100), enforced URLTA rights, joined a tenants' union, or complained to a housing agency (AS 34.03.310(a),(b)) — but that defense does not apply if the tenant 'is in default in rent' (AS 34.03.310(c)(1)) |
| Arizona verified 2026-07-10 | Arizona Residential Landlord and Tenant Act, A.R.S. Title 33 ch. 10 — notices § 33-1368; periodic-tenancy termination § 33-1375; service § 33-1313; retaliation § 33-1381 |
5 calendar days' written notice to pay or the landlord may file (§ 33-1368(B), (G)); tendering all past-due rent plus a reasonable written late fee before the case is filed reinstates the tenancy |
10 calendar days to cure a material lease breach (§ 33-1368(A)); 5 days to cure a breach of the health-and-safety duties in § 33-1341 |
Immediate termination, no cure, for a material-and-irreparable breach — illegal weapon discharge, homicide, prostitution, gang or drug activity, threats, assault, nuisance, or serious property damage (§ 33-1368(A)); a repeat same/similar breach = 10 days, no cure |
Month-to-month: 30 days' written notice (§ 33-1375(B)); week-to-week: 10 days (§ 33-1375(A)) |
No statewide just-cause requirement; a periodic tenancy may be ended for no reason on proper notice (local ordinances may add more — outside this survey's state-law scope) |
Delivered in hand to the tenant, or mailed by registered or certified mail to the place the tenant holds out for receipt or last known residence; a mailed notice is received on actual receipt or 5 days after mailing, whichever is first (§ 33-1313(B)) |
Curing within the 5-/10-day period stops the eviction; a nonpayment case reinstates on tendering past-due rent + a reasonable late fee before filing (adds attorney fees + costs after filing; solely the landlord's discretion after judgment); retaliation is barred with a 6-month presumption (§ 33-1381) |
| Arkansas verified 2026-07-10 | Three parallel eviction tracks, each with its own notice: (1) civil unlawful detainer, Ark. Code §§ 18-60-301 to -312 (grounds in § 18-60-304; objection/writ procedure § 18-60-307); (2) the Arkansas Residential Landlord-Tenant Act of 2007, §§ 18-17-101 to -913 (nonpayment/noncompliance § 18-17-701, periodic termination § 18-17-704, eviction grounds § 18-17-901); and (3) the criminal failure-to-vacate misdemeanor, § 18-16-101. Not a URLTA state; no implied warranty of habitability; no statewide just cause; no statutory retaliation bar |
Depends on the track the landlord picks. Civil unlawful detainer: '3 days' notice to quit and demand' in writing (§ 18-60-304(3)). RLTA civil eviction: no separate written notice — 'nonpayment of rent within five (5) days of the date due constitutes legal notice' that the landlord may begin eviction (§§ 18-17-701(b), 18-17-901(b)), so paying within 5 days of the due date is the real cutoff. Criminal failure-to-vacate: 10 days' written notice to vacate, after which willful refusal is a misdemeanor (§ 18-16-101) |
14 days to cure (RLTA): for a noncompliance with the rental agreement other than rent, written notice specifying the acts and stating the agreement terminates 'not less than fourteen (14) days after receipt' unless remedied within 14 days (§ 18-17-701(a)). Remedying in time saves the tenancy. On the civil unlawful-detainer track, holding over after a written demand to surrender is itself unlawful detainer (§ 18-60-304(2)) |
Arkansas has no separate short 'unconditional quit' notice with its own fixed day count. Conduct such as maintaining a nuisance, or failing to keep the premises 'in a safe, healthy, or habitable condition,' makes the tenant an unlawful detainer under § 18-60-304(4)-(5), pursued through the ordinary unlawful-detainer process (a written demand to surrender under § 18-60-304(2)); a separate criminal-activity eviction procedure also exists (§ 18-16-501 et seq.) |
Month-to-month: at least 30 days' written notice before the termination date; week-to-week: at least 7 days (§ 18-17-704(a)-(b)). A fixed-term lease ends on its own date and a tenant who then holds over is an unlawful detainer (§ 18-60-304(1)). No reason need be given |
No. Arkansas has no statewide just-cause requirement; a periodic tenancy may be terminated on the § 18-17-704 notice with no reason stated (subject to federal fair-housing law). No 2025 legislation changed this. Local ordinances are outside this state-law survey |
Every pre-suit notice must be in writing — the civil 3-day notice to quit and written demand (§ 18-60-304(3)), the RLTA written notice (§ 18-17-701), or the criminal 10-day 'notice in writing' by the landlord, the landlord's agent, or attorney (§ 18-16-101(b)) — but no statute prescribes a single mandated delivery method for the pre-suit notice, so a documented written delivery is the safe course; oral notice satisfies none of them. After an unlawful-detainer suit is filed, the sheriff or a process server serves the summons, complaint, and notice seeking a writ of possession (§ 18-60-307(a)) |
Cure rights are narrow. A lease noncompliance can be cured within the 14-day RLTA window (§ 18-17-701(a)); for nonpayment, paying within 5 days of the due date avoids eviction, but the RLTA gives no statutory right to reinstate by paying once the landlord terminates (§ 18-17-701(b)). In a civil unlawful-detainer case the tenant's defense is to file a written objection 'within five (5) days, excluding Sundays and legal holidays' after service, or the clerk issues a writ of possession (§ 18-60-307(b)-(c)). Arkansas has NO statutory bar on retaliatory eviction and no implied warranty of habitability; § 18-60-304(4) instead makes a tenant's failure to keep the premises habitable a ground for eviction. Self-help removal is not authorized — possession is recovered through the court process |
| California verified 2026-07-10 | Notices: Cal. Civ. Proc. Code §§ 1161–1162. No-cause termination: Cal. Civ. Code § 1946.1. Just cause: Cal. Civ. Code § 1946.2 (Tenant Protection Act) |
3 days to pay or quit, excluding Saturdays, Sundays, and other judicial holidays (a business-day count); notice must state the exact amount due and how to pay |
3 days to cure or quit a curable breach, excluding Saturdays, Sundays, and judicial holidays |
3-day notice to quit, no cure, for waste, nuisance, using the unit for an unlawful purpose, or unauthorized assignment/subletting |
Month-to-month: 30 days if the tenant has lived there under 1 year; 60 days at 1 year or more — but barred without just cause once occupancy reaches 12 months |
Yes — after 12 months' occupancy the tenancy can end only for an enumerated at-fault or no-fault just cause (Civ. Code § 1946.2); many exemptions; set to repeal Jan. 1, 2030 |
Personal delivery; or leave with a suitable person and mail (substituted service); or post-and-mail if neither is possible (CCP § 1162); a landlord may not charge a fee to serve the notice |
Paying the rent or curing the breach within the 3-day period saves the tenancy; before a just-cause termination for a curable violation the landlord must first give the cure chance |
| Colorado verified 2026-07-10 | Forcible Entry and Detainer article, C.R.S. Title 13, Art. 40 — grounds & notice periods § 13-40-104; substantial violation § 13-40-107.5; no-cause tenancy-termination schedule § 13-40-107; service § 13-40-108. PLUS the 2024 For-Cause Eviction law, C.R.S. Part 13 of Art. 12, Title 38 (cause requirement § 38-12-1303; exemptions § 38-12-1302), eff. Apr. 19, 2024. Retaliation § 38-12-509 |
10 days' written notice demanding, in the alternative, payment of the rent or possession (§ 13-40-104(1)(d)); paying the full amount within 10 days cures. Shorter only for narrow categories: 3 days for a nonresidential or employer-provided-housing agreement, 5 days for an 'exempt residential agreement' |
10 days' written notice to comply with the lease covenant or deliver possession for a material violation (§ 13-40-104(1)(e)); 3 days nonresidential/employer, 5 days exempt residential. A repeat of the same covenant after a prior compliance notice ends the tenancy with no cure, effective 10 days after notice (§ 13-40-104(1)(e.5)) |
3 days to quit, no cure, for a 'substantial violation' — an act endangering a person or willfully and substantially endangering property, a violent or drug-related felony, or a public-nuisance crime carrying 180+ days' possible jail, on or near the premises (§ 13-40-104(1)(d.5), § 13-40-107.5); the landlord must prove it by a preponderance, and there is a domestic-violence-victim defense |
For a COVERED residential tenant (12+ months), no-cause termination and non-renewal are BARRED — the landlord needs statutory cause (§ 38-12-1303). The tenancy-length schedule in § 13-40-107 — 91 days (1 year+), 28 days (6-12 months), 21 days (1-6 months), 3 days (week-to-month or at-will), 1 day (under a week) — now applies only to nonresidential and statutorily exempt residential premises |
Yes, since Apr. 19, 2024. A landlord 'shall not serve a notice to terminate tenancy... or otherwise proceed with an action for unlawful detainer... unless there is cause,' limited to enumerated grounds — nonpayment, a substantial violation, a material or repeat lease violation, and narrow no-fault grounds (§ 38-12-1303). Exempt (so no-cause still allowed): short-term rentals, owner-occupied buildings of 3 or fewer units, mobile-home spaces, employer housing, and tenancies of less than 12 months (§ 38-12-1302) |
Deliver a copy to a known tenant occupying the premises; leave it with a household member over age 15 residing on or in charge of the premises; or, if no one is present after personal-service attempts on two separate days, post it conspicuously on the premises (§ 13-40-108). The notice must be in writing and state the termination date and grounds |
Pay the full rent demanded within the 10-day period to stop a nonpayment eviction; cure a material lease violation within 10 days. No cure for a substantial violation or a repeat violation. Retaliation is barred (§ 38-12-509): a landlord may not terminate, refuse to renew, or bring a possession action because the tenant complained about conditions, joined a tenants' association, or exercised a tenant right — a tenant need show only that the protected activity was 'a motivating factor,' and damages run to the greater of 3 months' rent or 3x actual damages plus fees |
| Connecticut verified 2026-07-10 | Conn. Gen. Stat. Title 47a. Summary-process notice to quit § 47a-23 (a uniform 3-day notice for every ground); pretermination cure notice § 47a-15; nonpayment grace period § 47a-15a; protected-tenant good cause § 47a-23c; retaliation § 47a-20. No URLTA; the eviction suit ('summary process') follows the notice to quit |
A 9-day grace period (4 days for a one-week tenancy) after rent is due before it is 'in arrears' (§ 47a-15a); paying within it stops the eviction. Only after the grace period may the landlord serve a 3-day notice to quit (§ 47a-23) — no separate cure notice for nonpayment |
A pretermination notice specifying the breach and stating the lease terminates on a date not less than 15 days after receipt (§ 47a-15); if the tenant remedies a repairable breach within those 15 days the tenancy continues. If uncured, a 3-day notice to quit follows |
No 15-day cure notice for nonpayment, a 'serious nuisance,' or a § 47a-11(h) violation — the landlord may go straight to the 3-day notice to quit (§ 47a-15). A repeat of substantially the same violation within 6 months also loses the cure right (§ 47a-15) |
By 'lapse of time': the landlord serves a 3-day notice to quit at or after the end of the rental period (§ 47a-23(a)(1)(A)). Connecticut requires no 30-day no-cause notice — an outlier short period |
Only for protected tenants: a tenant 62+ or with a physical/mental disability living in a building or complex of 5+ units (or a mobile-home park) may be evicted only for enumerated good cause — nonpayment, refusal of a fair rent increase, serious/material noncompliance, the landlord removing the unit from the market, or a bona fide move-in (§ 47a-23c). No general just-cause requirement for other tenants |
The notice to quit is 'delivered to each lessee or occupant or left at such lessee's or occupant's place of residence... by a proper officer or indifferent person,' and delivery 'may be made on any day of the week' (§ 47a-23(c)) |
Nonpayment: pay within the 9-day (or 4-day) grace period to stop it (§ 47a-15a). Lease violation: remedy within the 15-day § 47a-15 period. Retaliatory eviction is barred — a landlord may not seek possession within six months after the tenant complained to officials, organized, or exercised a legal right (§ 47a-20), a rebuttable presumption |
| Delaware verified 2026-07-11 | Delaware Residential Landlord-Tenant Code, 25 Del. C. chs. 51–59 (summary possession in ch. 57) — nonpayment in § 5502, lease breach in § 5513, no-cause termination in § 5106, how notice is served in § 5113, retaliation in § 5516. Short notice periods are counted excluding weekends/holidays under § 5112 |
A written demand giving 'not less than 5 days' to pay before the agreement terminates (§ 5502); because the period is under 7 days, § 5112 excludes weekends and legal holidays from the count. No late fee or demand until rent is 5 days late — 8 days if the landlord keeps no in-county payment office (§ 5501(d)) |
7 days' written notice to remedy a material breach of a rule or covenant (§ 5513(a)); the notice must name the rule and warn that a substantially similar breach within 1 year can be grounds to file without a further chance to cure |
No cure and no fixed waiting period: when a breach 'causes or threatens to cause irreparable harm,' or the tenant is convicted of a class A misdemeanor or felony during the tenancy that caused or threatened irreparable harm, the landlord may 'immediately terminate the rental agreement upon notice' and file (§ 5513(b)); a forthwith summons is available (§ 5115) |
Month-to-month: at least 60 days' written notice, and the 60-day clock begins on the first day of the month after actual notice (§ 5106(d)) — one of the longest no-cause periods in the country. A fixed-term lease is ended by 60 days' notice before its expiration (§ 5106(c)) |
No statewide just-cause requirement — a month-to-month tenancy may be ended for any reason on the 60-day § 5106 notice, subject to the retaliation and fair-housing rules. Local ordinances may add more (outside this survey's state-law scope) |
Any notice required by the Code may be served personally; by leaving a copy at the rental unit with an adult residing there; by registered, certified, or first-class mail with a certificate of mailing; or by posting on the unit combined with a mailing (§ 5113). A return receipt or certificate of mailing is prima facie proof of service. The § 5502 demand must state the pay deadline; the § 5513 notice must specify the rule breached |
Nonpayment is curable by paying in full: if the tenant pays all rent due before suit (or after suit) and the landlord accepts it 'without a written reservation of rights,' the landlord may not proceed (§ 5502(c), (d)). A rule breach is cured by fixing it within the 7 days (§ 5513(a)). Retaliatory eviction is barred — an action within 90 days of a good-faith code complaint or tenant-organizing is presumed retaliatory, exposing the landlord to 3 months' rent or treble damages (§ 5516). Lease clauses awarding attorney's fees are unenforceable (§ 5111) |
| District of Columbia verified 2026-07-11 | The District is a 'for cause' jurisdiction under the Rental Housing Act of 1985. The controlling eviction section is D.C. Code § 42-3505.01, which bars eviction except on enumerated grounds and sets a distinct notice period for each; retaliation is separately barred by § 42-3505.02. The court case is a Landlord & Tenant action in D.C. Superior Court. Rent-stabilization details also live in Title 14 of the DCMR (outside this survey's statute scope) |
At least 10 days' written pre-filing notice — but the landlord 'shall not issue such notice if the amount of rent that the tenant has failed to pay is less than $600' (§ 42-3505.01(a-1)(1)). The mandated notice must tell the tenant they 'have the right to remain in the rental unit if the total balance of unpaid rent is paid in full,' and that a case may be filed if the balance is not paid 'within 30 days of this notice' (§ 42-3505.01(a-1)(2)). Nonpayment of a late fee alone can never be the basis for eviction (§ 42-3505.01(a)(1)) |
30 days to cure. A landlord 'may recover possession of a rental unit when the tenant is violating an obligation of the tenancy, other than nonpayment of rent, and fails to correct the violation within 30 days after receiving notice' (§ 42-3505.01(b)). Curing within the 30 days stops the eviction |
No landlord-set unconditional quit for ordinary misconduct — DC requires a court to first determine an illegal act occurred. For a court-determined illegal act in the unit or accommodation, a 30-day notice to vacate, no cure (§ 42-3505.01(c)). For a case filed after Dec. 31, 2025 alleging a 'dangerous crime' or 'crime of violence' (defined in § 23-1331), the notice is 10 days and the court hears it on an expedited basis within 20 days (§ 42-3505.01(c)(2)) |
Barred. DC does not allow a no-cause end to a residential tenancy — a tenant may stay past lease expiration 'so long as the tenant continues to pay the rent' (§ 42-3505.01(a)(1)). To recover the unit the landlord must fit a statutory ground: owner personal use (90-day, § (d)), sale for a buyer's personal use (90-day, § (e)), renovation (120-day, § (f)), demolition (180-day, § (g)), substantial rehabilitation (120-day, § (h)), or discontinuing housing use (180-day, § (i)) |
Yes — one of the strongest statewide just-cause regimes in the country. § 42-3505.01 permits eviction only on enumerated grounds, each with its own notice: nonpayment (10-day pre-filing, arrears ≥ $600); violation of a tenancy obligation (30-day cure, (b)); court-determined illegal act (30-day, or 10-day for a dangerous/violent crime, (c)); owner use (90-day, (d)); sale (90-day, (e)); renovation (120-day, (f)); demolition (180-day, (g)); substantial rehab (120-day, (h)); discontinuance of housing use (180-day, (i)); condo/coop conversion (per § 42-3402.06(c), (j)). Lease expiration is not a cause |
Written notice. Every notice except for nonpayment must be served on BOTH the tenant and the Rent Administrator (§ 42-3505.01(a)(1)). If served by posting, a timestamped photograph must be filed with the court (§ (a)(2)); if the tenant's primary language is a covered language other than English or Spanish, the notice must be in that language (§ (a)(3)). The nonpayment notice must go out by certified/tracked mail with return receipt AND by hand delivery or posting on the front door (§ (a-1)(3)). A court may dismiss a case where notice was missing, premature, un-photographed, or untranslated (§ (a)(4)) |
Pay-to-stay and cure: paying the rent keeps the tenancy (§ (a)(1)); curing a lease violation within 30 days stops that eviction (§ (b)). Retaliation is barred and presumed if the landlord acts within 6 months of the tenant requesting repairs, reporting code violations, lawfully withholding rent, organizing, or suing — rebuttable only by 'clear and convincing evidence' (§ 42-3505.02). A domestic-violence (intrafamily-offense) victim has a defense to a (b) or (c) eviction (§ (c-1)). Evictions are blocked on days below 32°F, above 95°F, or during precipitation (§ (k)); the landlord must show a current rental business license (§ (q)); and a pending Emergency Rental Assistance application can stay a nonpayment case (§ (r)) |
| Florida verified 2026-07-10 | Florida Residential Landlord and Tenant Act — Fla. Stat. § 83.56 (termination notices) and § 83.57 (ending a tenancy with no set duration); retaliation defense at § 83.64 |
3-day notice to pay rent or deliver possession, excluding Saturday, Sunday, and court-observed legal holidays; a statutory form is required (§ 83.56(3)) |
7-day notice to cure a fixable violation (unauthorized pet/guest/vehicle, uncleanliness); if the same conduct recurs within 12 months, eviction can proceed without another notice (§ 83.56(2)(b)) |
7-day notice to vacate, no cure, for a non-curable violation (intentional destruction/damage or continued unreasonable disturbance) or a repeat violation within 12 months (§ 83.56(2)(a)) |
Month-to-month: at least 30 days before the end of a monthly period; week-to-week 7 days; quarter-to-quarter 30 days; year-to-year 60 days (§ 83.57) |
No statewide just-cause requirement; a no-duration tenancy may be ended for any reason on the § 83.57 notice (local ordinances are outside this state-law survey) |
Mail it, hand-deliver a true copy, e-mail it per § 83.505, or — if the tenant is absent — leave a copy at the residence; the notice requirement cannot be waived in the lease (§ 83.56(4)) |
Paying the full amount demanded within the 3 days stops a nonpayment termination; a good-faith tenant may raise retaliatory eviction as a defense (§ 83.64) |
| Georgia verified 2026-07-10 | Dispossessory statute O.C.G.A. §§ 44-7-49 to 44-7-59 (demand for possession, § 44-7-50). At-will termination: § 44-7-7. Retaliation defense: § 44-7-24. No URLTA; 2024 Safe at Home Act (HB 404) added the pre-filing nonpayment notice |
3 business days: for residential leases entered into or renewed on/after July 1, 2024, a written notice to vacate or pay all past-due rent, late fees, utilities, and other charges before filing (§ 44-7-50(c)); paying within it stops the filing |
No statutory cure period. A lease violation is a ground to end the tenancy under the lease; the landlord then makes a demand for possession (§ 44-7-50(a)) and files. Any chance to cure comes from the lease, not the statute |
No separate unconditional-quit category or day count. Georgia runs every ground — holdover, nonpayment, sufferance, lease breach — through one dispossessory track: demand for possession, then filing |
Tenancy at will (includes month-to-month): 60 days' notice from the landlord, 30 days from the tenant (§ 44-7-7) |
No statewide just-cause requirement. A tenancy at will may be ended by the landlord for any reason on 60 days' notice (local ordinances are outside this state-law survey) |
The demand or 3-day notice must be posted in a sealed envelope conspicuously on the door and delivered by any additional method agreed in the lease (§ 44-7-50(d)); it may also be handed over in person. (The later court summons is served by the sheriff, personally or by tack-and-mail) |
After filing, tender all rent owed plus the dispossessory-warrant cost within 7 days of being served the summons — a complete defense, but only once in any 12-month period (§ 44-7-52). Retaliatory eviction is a defense (§ 44-7-24) |
| Hawaii verified 2026-07-11 | Hawaii Residential Landlord-Tenant Code, Haw. Rev. Stat. ch. 521 — notices in §§ 521-68 (rent), 521-69 and 521-72 (violations), 521-71 (ending a periodic tenancy), 521-74 (retaliation); the court eviction (summary possession) is ch. 666 |
At least 10 calendar days to pay or the tenancy ends (§ 521-68, amended by 2025 Act 278, eff. Feb. 5, 2026 — was 5 business days). A copy must also go to a state-funded mediation center; if the tenant schedules mediation within the 10 days, the landlord must wait 20 calendar days from receipt to file. Paying within the period stops it |
At least 10 days to cure — for a house-rule breach (§ 521-72) or the tenant's failure to keep the unit clean and safe, i.e. waste/failure to maintain (§ 521-69). If a rule breach recurs after the deadline, the landlord may file within 30 days (§ 521-72(b)) |
No fixed-day flat quit notice; but no time to cure is required when the tenant's noncompliance causes or threatens irremediable damage to a person or property (§ 521-69), or a rule breach causes or threatens damage to a person or violates the health-and-safety tenant duties in § 521-51(1) or (6) (§ 521-72). Written notice is still required; there is just no chance to fix it |
Month-to-month: at least 45 days' written notice (§ 521-71(a)) — longer than the common 30. Less-than-month-to-month (e.g. week-to-week): at least 10 days (§ 521-71(d)). Demolition, condominium conversion, or converting to transient vacation rentals: at least 120 days (§ 521-71(c)) |
No statewide just-cause requirement — a landlord may end a month-to-month tenancy for no stated reason on 45 days' notice (§ 521-71(a)). A local city or county ordinance may add more; that is outside this survey's state-law scope |
Nonpayment notice: personal delivery, posting in a conspicuous place (deemed received on the posting date), or U.S. mail (deemed received 2 business days after postmark), and it must state the landlord's contact info, the exact amount due, and the mediation-center and bold warning language (§ 521-68(a)–(b)). Other notices: in writing, and may be posted if the tenant cannot be served (§ 521-69); the house-rule notice must follow the statutory form in § 521-72(a) |
Pay the rent or cure the breach within the notice period to keep the tenancy. On a nonpayment notice the tenant may request free mediation, which pauses filing (§ 521-68). Retaliatory eviction is barred after a good-faith complaint to a housing/health agency or a repair request (§ 521-74); a repair-and-deduct remedy of up to $1,000 or one month's rent (§ 521-64) and an implied-warranty-of-habitability defense are available; a landlord may not use a utility shutoff or lockout to force a tenant out (§ 521-74.5) |
| Idaho verified 2026-07-10 | Idaho's eviction rules are in the forcible-entry-and-unlawful-detainer statutes, Idaho Code Title 6, ch. 3: grounds and notice periods § 6-303, service § 6-304, the expedited eviction action § 6-310. Ending a month-to-month tenancy (tenancy at will) is in Title 55, § 55-208. Idaho is NOT a URLTA state and has no separate residential landlord-tenant code setting notice periods. No statewide just cause |
3 days: after a rent default, the landlord serves a written notice 'requiring its payment, stating the amount which is due, or possession of the property' (§ 6-303(2)). Paying the amount due within 3 days stops the eviction. The notice must also warn that after a judgment a residential tenant has 72 hours to remove belongings — omitting that language voids the notice and restarts the 3 days |
3 days to perform or quit: for a breach of any lease covenant other than rent, the landlord serves a 3-day written notice 'requiring the performance of such conditions or covenants, or the possession of the property' (§ 6-303(3)). Within those 3 days the tenant may 'perform the conditions or covenants... and thereby save the lease from forfeiture.' If the violated covenant 'cannot afterward be performed,' the breach is incurable and no cure notice is required |
3-day notice to quit, no cure, for incurable conduct. Assigning, subletting, or committing waste against the lease 'terminates the lease,' entitling the landlord to possession 'upon service of three (3) days' notice to quit' (§ 6-303(4)). Separately, the unlawful delivery, production, or use of a controlled substance on the premises is an unlawful-detainer ground (§ 6-303(5)); as conduct that cannot be undone it falls under the § 6-303(3) incurable-breach proviso, so it is served as a 3-day notice to quit with no cure |
One month: a landlord ends a month-to-month tenancy (tenancy at will) by written notice 'to remove from the premises within a period of not less than one (1) month' (§ 55-208(1)). Idaho expresses this as one month, not a fixed 30-day count, so the period tracks the calendar month named in the notice |
No. Idaho has no statewide just-cause requirement; a month-to-month tenancy may be ended for any lawful reason on the one-month § 55-208 notice. Local ordinances are outside this state-law survey (Idaho has no rent control statewide) |
Section 6-304: (1) personal delivery to the tenant; or (2) if the tenant is absent from home and work, leaving a copy with a person of suitable age and discretion at either place AND mailing a copy; or, if neither place can be found and no suitable person is there, posting a copy conspicuously on the property, delivering a copy to any person residing there, AND mailing a copy. A nonpayment notice must state the amount due and include the 72-hour post-judgment removal warning (§ 6-303(2)) |
Pay the amount due (nonpayment) or perform the covenant (lease breach) within the 3 days to 'save the lease from forfeiture' (§ 6-303(2)-(3)); there is no cure for waste/assignment (§ 6-303(4)) or drug activity (§ 6-303(5)). Idaho's eviction statutes contain NO written retaliation bar and NO just-cause requirement — a notable gap versus most states — but Idaho courts recognize a common-law retaliatory-eviction defense (for example, evicting because the tenant requested repairs, reported a code violation, or joined a tenants' association). A landlord also may not use self-help (lockout, utility shutoff); only a court may order eviction |
| Illinois verified 2026-07-10 | Eviction Article of the Code of Civil Procedure, 735 ILCS 5/9-201 to 5/9-321 (notice sections 9-207, 9-209, 9-210, 9-211). Retaliation: the Landlord Retaliation Act, 765 ILCS 721/ (eff. Jan. 1, 2025, replacing the repealed Retaliatory Eviction Act). No statewide just-cause law |
5-day written rent demand — pay 'within a time... not less than 5 days after service' or the lease is terminated (735 ILCS 5/9-209); calendar days. Paying the full amount demanded within the 5 days stops the eviction; the notice must carry the statutory 'Only FULL PAYMENT... will waive the landlord's right to terminate' language |
10 days' notice to quit for any lease default — 'it is not necessary to give more than 10 days' notice to quit' (735 ILCS 5/9-210). It is a notice to terminate, not a statutory cure period; no state-law right to fix the breach and stay |
No separate fixed unconditional-quit category; any default in the terms of the lease is handled by the 10-day notice to quit above (735 ILCS 5/9-210), with no state-law cure right |
Month-to-month: 30 days' written notice (735 ILCS 5/9-207(b)); week-to-week: 7 days (§ 9-207(a)). No reason required. (A buyer at a foreclosure sale must give a bona-fide tenant at least 90 days — § 9-207.5) |
No. Illinois has no statewide just-cause requirement; a periodic tenancy may be ended for no reason on the notice above. (Some localities, e.g. Chicago and Cook County, add local just-cause or good-cause protections — outside this survey's state-law scope) |
Deliver a written copy to the tenant; or leave it with a person 13 or older residing on or in possession of the premises; or send it by certified or registered mail with a return receipt; or, if no one is in possession, post it on the premises (735 ILCS 5/9-211) |
Nonpayment: paying the full rent demanded within the 5-day notice period defeats the termination (735 ILCS 5/9-209); partial payment doesn't unless it reaches the full amount demanded. No state-law right to cure a non-rent lease breach. Retaliatory eviction is barred, with a one-year rebuttable presumption, under the Landlord Retaliation Act (765 ILCS 721/5, 721/20) |
| Indiana verified 2026-07-10 | Indiana landlord-tenant, IC 32-31-1 (notices) — nonpayment IC 32-31-1-6/-7; periodic-tenancy termination IC 32-31-1-1 to -4; service IC 32-31-1-9; retaliation IC 32-31-8.5. Not a URLTA state; no graduated conduct-based notice ladder |
Not less than 10 days' written notice; the landlord may terminate unless the parties agreed otherwise or the tenant pays the rent in full before the notice period expires (IC 32-31-1-6) |
No separate statutory cure-or-quit period for a non-rent breach; Indiana's notice statutes reach only unpaid rent and periodic-tenancy termination, so a lease violation follows the lease's own terms |
No statutory unconditional-quit-by-conduct notice; notice is not even required when a tenant at will commits waste or is a tenant at sufferance (IC 32-31-1-8), and a serious/dangerous situation goes through a court emergency possessory order (IC 32-31-6), not a notice |
Month-to-month / tenancy at will: one month's written notice (IC 32-31-1-1); a shorter periodic tenancy: notice equal to the interval between periods (IC 32-31-1-4); year-to-year: at least 3 months before the year ends (IC 32-31-1-3) |
No statewide just-cause requirement; a periodic tenancy may be ended for no reason on proper notice, and IC 32-31-1-20 bars local rent regulation and landlord-tenant ordinances |
Served on the tenant; if the tenant cannot be found, on a person residing at the premises (who must have the notice's contents explained to them); if no one is found there, by affixing a copy to a conspicuous part of the premises (IC 32-31-1-9) |
Paying the rent in full before the 10-day notice period expires stops a nonpayment termination (IC 32-31-1-6). Retaliation is barred: a landlord may not raise rent, cut services, or bring/threaten a possession action because of a protected activity such as a health-and-safety code complaint or joining a tenant organization (IC 32-31-8.5) |
| Iowa verified 2026-07-10 | Iowa Uniform Residential Landlord and Tenant Law, Iowa Code ch. 562A: tenant noncompliance/nonpayment § 562A.27, clear-and-present-danger § 562A.27A, service § 562A.29A, periodic-tenancy termination § 562A.34, retaliation § 562A.36. The eviction (forcible entry and detainer) suit and its separate 3-day notice to quit are in ch. 648 (§ 648.3). Iowa adopted URLTA; no statewide just cause |
3 days: the landlord gives written notice of nonpayment and intent to terminate, and may terminate only if the tenant fails to pay within 3 days (§ 562A.27(2)). Paying within 3 days stops it; the landlord may then file without a separate 3-day notice to quit (§ 648.3(1)) |
7 days to cure: written notice specifying the acts, stating the tenancy terminates on a date not less than 7 days after receipt unless remedied within 7 days (§ 562A.27(1)). Remedying within the 7 days keeps the tenancy |
A single 3-day written notice of termination and notice to quit, no cure, for a tenant who creates a 'clear and present danger' — assault or threats, illegal firearm use, or a controlled-substance offense (§ 562A.27A). A repeat of substantially the same breach within 6 months may be terminated on 7 days' notice with no cure (§ 562A.27(1)) |
Month-to-month: at least 30 days' written notice before the periodic rental date (§ 562A.34(2)); week-to-week: at least 10 days (§ 562A.34(1)); a term longer than month-to-month: 30 days before the end of the term (§ 562A.34(3)) |
No. Iowa has no statewide just-cause requirement; a periodic tenancy may be ended for any lawful reason on the 30-day (or 10-day) notice. Local ordinances are outside this state-law survey |
Any of three methods (§ 562A.29A; same for a § 648.3 notice to quit): (1) hand delivery with a signed, dated acknowledgment by an adult resident; (2) personal service under Iowa R. Civ. P. 1.305; or (3) posting on the primary entrance door AND mailing by BOTH regular and certified mail. Mailed notice is deemed complete 4 days after it is postmarked |
Pay within 3 days (nonpayment) or remedy within 7 days (lease breach) to stop the termination (§ 562A.27). Iowa bars retaliatory eviction: a landlord may not bring or threaten an eviction after the tenant complains to a code agency, complains to the landlord about a habitability breach, or joins a tenants' union, and a good-faith complaint within the prior year raises a presumption of retaliation (§ 562A.36). A repair-and-deduct defense to a nonpayment action exists if the landlord breached, the tenant gave 7 days' notice, and the fix cost no more than one month's rent (§ 562A.27(4)) |
| Kansas verified 2026-07-10 | Kansas Residential Landlord and Tenant Act (KRLTA), K.S.A. 58-2540 et seq. (modeled on the URLTA): termination for cause/nonpayment § 58-2564, periodic-tenancy termination § 58-2570, retaliation bar § 58-2572. The eviction (forcible detainer) suit and its separate 3-day pre-suit 'notice to leave' are in the Code of Civil Procedure for Limited Actions, K.S.A. ch. 61, art. 38 (§ 61-3803). No statewide just cause |
3 days: the landlord may terminate only if rent stays unpaid 3 days after written notice of nonpayment and the intent to terminate (§ 58-2564(b)). The 3 days are 'three consecutive 24-hour periods' running from delivery or posting; if the notice is mailed, the tenant gets 2 extra days to pay. Paying within the period stops the termination |
14 days to cure inside a 30-day termination: written notice specifying the breach and stating the tenancy terminates on a date not less than 30 days after receipt if the breach is not remedied in 14 days (§ 58-2564(a)). Remedying — or making a good-faith effort to remedy — within 14 days keeps the tenancy |
No separate short quit for drugs, crime, or nuisance. The only no-cure route: if the same or a similar breach recurs after the 14-day cure period, the landlord may terminate on a date not less than 30 days after receipt with no chance to cure (§ 58-2564(a)) |
Month-to-month: written notice that the tenancy ends on a periodic rent-paying date not less than 30 days after receipt (§ 58-2570(b)); week-to-week: at least 7 days (§ 58-2570(a)). A tenant in military service may end a month-to-month on up to 15 days' notice. A fixed term of more than 30 days is not a month-to-month tenancy |
No. Kansas has no statewide just-cause requirement; a periodic tenancy may be ended for any lawful reason on the § 58-2570 notice, subject only to the § 58-2572 retaliation bar and fair-housing law. Local ordinances are outside this state-law survey |
The statute spells out methods for the nonpayment notice and the pre-suit notice to leave: deliver a written copy to the tenant, leave a copy with a person over 12 residing on the premises, or (if no one is found) post a copy conspicuously; mailing is allowed but adds 2 days (§§ 58-2564(b), 61-3803). A cure notice must specify the acts constituting the breach (§ 58-2564(a)) |
Pay within 3 days (nonpayment) or remedy — or make a good-faith effort to remedy — within 14 days (lease breach) to keep the tenancy (§ 58-2564). Retaliation is a defense: a landlord may not raise rent or cut services after the tenant complains to a code agency, complains of a § 58-2553 habitability breach, or joins a tenants' union, and the tenant 'has a defense in an action against such tenant for possession' (§ 58-2572(a)-(b)) — but the landlord may still sue for possession if the tenant is in default in rent, caused the code violation, or the fix requires demolition (§ 58-2572(d)) |
| Kentucky verified 2026-07-10 | Kentucky has TWO regimes. The Uniform Residential Landlord and Tenant Act (URLTA), KRS 383.505-383.705, applies ONLY in cities, counties, and urban-counties that have adopted it in full (§ 383.500) — including Louisville/Jefferson County and Lexington/Fayette County, plus roughly 30 other cities and a few counties. Everywhere else, common law and the forcible-entry-and-detainer statutes (KRS 383.010-.285) govern, and a tenancy at will or by sufferance ends on one month's written notice (§ 383.195). Key URLTA sections: landlord notices § 383.660; periodic tenancy § 383.695; notice delivery § 383.560; retaliation § 383.705 |
URLTA jurisdictions: 7 days. A landlord may terminate only after 'written notice... of nonpayment and his intention to terminate' if the tenant 'fails to pay rent within seven (7) days' (§ 383.660(2)); paying within 7 days stops it. Outside URLTA jurisdictions there is no statutory pay-or-quit period — nonpayment is handled under the lease and common law, and the landlord may proceed to a forcible-detainer action (KRS 383.210) |
URLTA jurisdictions: 14 days to cure. Written notice must specify the acts and omissions and set termination 'not less than fourteen (14) days after receipt'; remedying the breach before that date stops termination (§ 383.660(1)). (The section's clock reads 14 days' notice but says a breach 'not remedied in fifteen (15) days' terminates — the 14-day notice is the operative period.) Outside URLTA jurisdictions there is no statutory cure-or-quit period; the lease and common law govern |
URLTA jurisdictions: no drug/nuisance fast-track, but a repeat of 'substantially the same act or omission' within six months lets the landlord terminate 'upon at least fourteen (14) days' written notice specifying the breach and the date of termination,' with no further chance to cure (§ 383.660(1)). Outside URLTA jurisdictions no statutory no-cure category exists |
URLTA jurisdictions: 30 days to end a month-to-month tenancy, 7 days for week-to-week (§ 383.695(1),(2)); a tenancy continuing after a written lease ends needs 10 days (§ 383.695(3)). Outside URLTA jurisdictions, a tenancy at will or by sufferance ends on 'one (1) month's notice, in writing' (§ 383.195). No reason need be given |
No statewide just-cause requirement in either regime; a periodic tenancy may be ended for no reason on proper notice. KRS 383.198 bars local landlord-tenant ordinances that conflict with state law (any local rules are outside this survey's state-law scope) |
URLTA jurisdictions: a notice is 'received' when it comes to the tenant's attention or is 'delivered in hand to the tenant or mailed by registered or certified mail' to the address the tenant holds out, or the last known residence (§ 383.560(3)). Outside URLTA jurisdictions, the § 383.195 termination notice must be 'in writing'; the forcible-detainer warrant itself is served under the court process (KRS 383.210) |
URLTA jurisdictions: pay within 7 days (rent) or cure within 14 days (breach) to stop termination (§ 383.660); retaliation is a defense — a landlord may not bring or threaten a possession action after a housing-code complaint, a complaint to the landlord, or tenant-union activity, and a complaint within one year before the eviction 'creates a presumption' of retaliation (§ 383.705). But that protection does not apply where 'the tenant is in default in rent' (§ 383.705(3)). Outside URLTA jurisdictions none of these statutory protections apply |
| Louisiana verified 2026-07-10 | Louisiana is the only civil-law state — there is no landlord-tenant act. Eviction is set by the Code of Civil Procedure, Title XI: the notice to vacate and its waiver (art. 4701), door-attachment service when the tenant is gone (art. 4703), and the summary rule-to-show-cause eviction (arts. 4731-4733). Ending an indeterminate-term (e.g. month-to-month) lease is governed by Civil Code arts. 2728-2729; deadlines are computed under CCP art. 5059. Underlying lease duties live in the Civil Code lease articles (arts. 2668-2729) |
5 days to vacate — not to pay. On nonpayment (or any termination), the landlord delivers a written notice to vacate allowing 'not less than five days from the date of its delivery' to leave (CCP art. 4701). It is a demand to move out, not a cure period; Louisiana has no statutory pay-or-quit. And the lease may waive the notice entirely, letting the landlord 'immediately institute eviction proceedings' — most Louisiana leases do. Because the period is under seven days, legal holidays within it are not counted (CCP art. 5059(C)(3)) |
The same 5-day notice to vacate (CCP art. 4701); no separate cure-or-quit period. Louisiana's eviction statute uses one notice for every ground. Whether a breach actually ends the lease is a contract question under the Civil Code lease articles (dissolution for nonperformance), not a statutory cure schedule — and the lease can waive the 5-day notice here too |
No separate no-cure category. Serious misconduct runs through the same 5-day notice to vacate as everything else (CCP art. 4701); if the lease waives that notice, the landlord may file at once. Louisiana's eviction statute has no shorter fast-track notice for nuisance, illegal use, or repeat violations |
For a month-to-month lease, written notice given 'ten calendar days before the end of that month' (Civil Code art. 2728(2)) — 30 days for a term longer than a month, 5 days for a week-to-under-a-month period (art. 2728(1),(3)). That termination notice 'shall be considered as a notice to vacate' (CCP art. 4701), so no separate 5-day notice is needed. A fixed-term lease simply ends at its term |
No statewide just-cause requirement. A month-to-month lease may be ended for no reason on the 10-day Civil Code art. 2728 notice; no state law limits the grounds (some local rules may exist — outside this survey's state-law scope) |
The notice to vacate must be 'delivered to the lessee' (CCP art. 4701), and for a residence it must be 'in writing' (Civil Code art. 2729). If the premises are 'abandoned or closed, or if the whereabouts of the lessee... is unknown,' the notice 'may be attached to a door of the premises,' with the same effect as personal delivery (CCP art. 4703). Deadlines are computed under CCP art. 5059 |
Thin by design. Louisiana provides no statutory right to pay overdue rent and stay, and its eviction statutes contain no general anti-retaliation defense for private residential tenants — a sharp contrast with most states. A tenant's protections are contractual (the lease, read in the tenant's favor under Civil Code rules) and equitable. The landlord still may not use self-help: possession requires the court's rule to show cause and a warrant of possession (CCP arts. 4731-4733) |
| Maine verified 2026-07-11 | Maine's Forcible Entry and Detainer statute, 14 M.R.S. ch. 709 — the notice rules are in § 6002 (tenancy at will), and § 6001 governs who may be evicted, the retaliation presumption, and domestic-violence protections. Not a Uniform Act state |
7-day written notice when the tenant is '7 days or more in arrears' (§ 6002(1)(C)). The notice must state the specific ground, the amount in arrears, and a statutory pay-to-reinstate statement (§ 6002(2)(A)). Paying the full amount before the notice expires makes it void. Calendar days |
No separate cure-or-quit statute for ordinary lease violations. A violation that amounts to a nuisance, makes the unit unfit, or breaks the law regarding the tenancy gets a 7-day notice (§ 6002(1)(B)); otherwise a tenancy at will is ended with the 30-day no-fault notice (§ 6002). Substantial damage the tenant hasn't repaired also takes a 7-day notice (§ 6002(1)(A)) |
7-day notice, with no statutory cure, for the serious grounds in § 6002(1): substantial unrepaired damage (A), nuisance/unfit/unlawful use (B), the tenant being a perpetrator of violence or a threat against another tenant, guest, or the landlord (E), or an unauthorized occupant (F). Only the nonpayment ground (C) carries a statutory right to pay and stay |
A tenancy at will may be ended for any reason on a minimum of 30 days' written notice (§ 6002). If the tenant has paid rent through a date when the 30 days would expire, the notice must expire on or after that paid-through date. Most Maine month-to-month tenancies are tenancies at will |
No statewide just-cause requirement — a tenancy at will can be ended on 30 days' notice for any reason (a city may add more; outside this survey's state-law scope). But § 6001(3) creates a rebuttable presumption of retaliation if, within the prior 6 months, the tenant complained about code violations, requested repairs, or asserted listed rights, and 'a writ of possession may not issue in the absence of rebuttal' of that presumption |
In writing. If the landlord makes at least 3 good-faith efforts to serve the tenant in hand, service may be completed by both first-class mail to the last known address and leaving the notice at the last and usual place of abode (§ 6002). Every termination notice must include language advising the tenant of the right to contest in court (§ 6002), and since Jan. 1, 2024 the landlord must attach the Judicial Branch's form notice (§ 6001(7)) |
Strong pay-and-stay for nonpayment: paying the full arrears before the 7-day notice expires voids it, and paying all arrears, rent due, and the landlord's filing/service fees before the writ of possession issues reinstates the tenancy (§ 6002(1)); a general-assistance payment counts. Defenses include the implied warranty of habitability (§ 6002(3)), the retaliation presumption and tenants'-organization protection (§ 6001(3)–(4)), and a failure-to-accommodate disability defense (§ 6001(5)). Domestic-violence victims have added protections (§ 6001(6); § 6002(4)) |
| Maryland verified 2026-07-10 | Real Property Article, Title 8, Subtitle 4 — nonpayment/summary ejectment § 8-401; holdover & periodic-tenancy termination § 8-402; breach of lease § 8-402.1; retaliation § 8-208.1. Not a URLTA state |
10 days' written notice of intent to file, on a Maryland Judiciary form, before a failure-to-pay-rent case may be filed; paying the rent due within 10 days cures it (§ 8-401(c)(1)). Flat 10-day count (no weekend/holiday exclusion) |
30 days' written notice that the tenant is in violation and the landlord wants the premises back, available only where the lease allows repossession for a breach (§ 8-402.1(a)(1)(i)2.A) |
No immediate, no-notice termination. The fastest is a 14-day written notice under § 8-402.1 where the breach shows a clear and imminent danger of the tenant (or a person there with their consent) doing serious harm to people or property — still a 14-day notice, not a quit-on-sight |
Month-to-month (or any written lease over a week): 60 days' written notice before the tenancy expires (§ 8-402(c)(2)(i)); week-to-week: 7 days with a written lease, 21 days without one |
No statewide just-cause requirement; a periodic tenancy may be ended for no reason on proper notice (local ordinances — e.g. Montgomery County, Baltimore City — may add more, outside this survey's state-law scope) |
The nonpayment notice is a Judiciary-created form (DC-CV-115) and is 'provided' by first-class mail with a certificate of mailing, by affixing it to the door of the premises, or — only if the tenant elected it — by email, text, or an electronic tenant portal (§ 8-401(c)(2)); the complaint must state the date notice was given, and the tenant may challenge it |
Pay the rent due within the 10-day notice period to stop a filing; tender rent + late fees + costs at trial and the complaint is 'satisfied' (§ 8-401(e)(5)); post-judgment, redeem by paying all past-due amounts plus court costs and fees any time before the eviction is actually executed (§ 8-401(h)) — cut off after 3 possession judgments for unpaid rent in 12 months. Retaliation barred (§ 8-208.1): 6-month window, damages up to 3 months' rent, but only if the tenant is current on rent |
| Massachusetts verified 2026-07-10 | Massachusetts summary process — notice to quit: M.G.L. c. 186 §§ 11 (lease nonpayment) & 12 (tenancy at will); retaliation: c. 186 § 18; eviction action: c. 239. Not a URLTA state; no graduated conduct-based notice ladder |
14 days' written notice to quit (c. 186 § 11 for a written lease; § 12 for a tenancy at will) |
No separate statutory cure-or-quit period for a non-rent breach; a lease tenant is terminated under the lease's own forfeiture terms, a tenant at will on the § 12 no-fault notice |
No statutory unconditional-quit-by-conduct category and no shorter conduct-based notice; serious misconduct is reached through the lease's forfeiture terms or the § 12 no-fault notice |
Tenancy at will: a full rental period or 30 days, whichever is longer (≈30 days / one interval for monthly rent); 3 months if rent is payable at intervals of 3 months or more (c. 186 § 12) |
No statewide just-cause requirement; a tenancy at will may be ended for no reason on proper notice (some subsidized programs impose just-cause — outside this survey's state-law scope) |
Notice must be in writing and given to the tenant; c. 186 sets no delivery method (personal delivery, leaving at the last-and-usual address, or certified/first-class mail are used). A nonpayment notice to a tenant at will must contain the § 12 cure-rights notification, or the cure period extends to the answer date |
Lease nonpayment: pay all rent due with interest and costs by the answer date to save the tenancy, no yearly cap (§ 11). Tenant at will: pay full rent due within 10 days of the notice if no similar notice in the prior 12 months (§ 12). Retaliation barred, with a rebuttable presumption if a non-nonpayment termination follows protected activity within 6 months (§ 18) |
| Michigan verified 2026-07-10 | Summary Proceedings Act (Revised Judicature Act of 1961): grounds and notice periods in MCL 600.5714; the demand's form and contents in § 600.5716; how it is served in § 600.5718. Notice-to-quit periods for periodic tenancies, the 7-day nonpayment notice, and the 24-hour drug notice are in MCL 554.134. Retaliation defense: § 600.5720 |
7-day written demand for possession; the landlord may file only once the tenant holds over 'after failing or refusing to pay rent due... within 7 days from the service of a written demand for possession for nonpayment' (§ 600.5714(1)(a)). Calendar days. Paying the rent due within the 7 days defeats this ground; accelerated (not-yet-due) rent is excluded from the amount |
No fixed statutory cure-or-quit period for an ordinary curable breach. A lease violation is terminated under the lease's own termination clause (§ 600.5714(1)(c)(i)), and the written demand must state 'the reasons for the demand and the time to take remedial action' (§ 600.5716). A no-fault month-to-month tenancy can instead be ended on one month's notice (§ 554.134(1)) |
Short no-cure grounds: a 24-hour written notice to quit for a controlled-substance offense on the premises, requiring a filed police report (§ 600.5714(1)(b); § 554.134(4)); and a 7-day written notice to quit where the tenant or a household member caused or threatened physical injury to a person on the landlord's property, requiring police notification (§ 600.5714(1)(e)). A serious, continuing health hazard or extensive damage the tenant causes triggers a separate 7-day demand to repair or leave (§ 600.5714(1)(d)) |
To end an at-will or month-to-month tenancy for no fault: one month's notice, or a period equal to the rent interval if rent is paid more often than every 3 months (so a week-to-week tenancy needs only that interval) — § 554.134(1). A year-to-year tenancy takes a full year's notice (§ 554.134(3)) |
No statewide just-cause requirement for an ordinary private tenancy; a periodic tenancy may be ended for any reason on proper notice. Public-housing and mobile-home-park tenancies are separately protected (§ 600.5714(2)-(3)) but are outside this survey's scope; local ordinances may add more |
The demand must be in writing, addressed to the occupant, describe the premises, state the reasons and the time to take remedial action, state the amount due if for nonpayment, and be dated and signed (§ 600.5716). It may be served by personal delivery, by leaving it with a suitable household member or employee, by first-class mail (service then dates to the next regular mail-delivery day), or by electronic service only if the tenant consented in writing (§ 600.5718) |
For nonpayment, paying the rent due within the 7-day demand period defeats the ground (§ 600.5714(1)(a)). Retaliation is a defense: a court may not enter a possession judgment if the termination was intended primarily as a penalty for the tenant enforcing lease or legal rights, complaining to a government authority about a health or safety code violation, or tenant-organizing (§ 600.5720(1)); a presumption favors the tenant if that protected act occurred within 90 days before the case was filed (§ 600.5720(2)) |
| Minnesota verified 2026-07-10 | Eviction actions under Minn. Stat. ch. 504B — complaint/summons and the 14-day nonpayment notice § 504B.321; grounds and retaliation defense § 504B.285; nonpayment redemption § 504B.291; terminating a tenancy at will § 504B.135; anti-retaliation § 504B.441. Not a URLTA state; eviction is a court action (formerly 'unlawful detainer') |
14 days' written notice before a nonpayment eviction may be filed (§ 504B.321 subd. 1a; added 2023); paying the total due within 14 days — or a longer period a city sets — stops the filing. The notice must itemize the amount due, name the payee, and carry statutory legal-aid and rent-assistance statements |
No statutory cure-or-quit notice period. A landlord may evict for a material lease violation only where the lease itself grants that right; the eviction complaint must identify the specific lease clause, the conduct, and the clause allowing eviction (§ 504B.285 subd. 1; § 504B.321 subd. 3). Any cure chance is whatever the lease provides |
No fixed-day unconditional-quit notice. Conduct that 'seriously endangers the safety of other residents' or 'intentionally and seriously damages the property,' or unlawful/drug activity (§ 504B.171), instead lets the landlord skip to an EXPEDITED eviction hearing (appearance 5–7 days, summons served within 24 hours) on a sworn affidavit (§ 504B.321 subd. 2) — a fast court action, not a pre-suit cure notice. A 2026 amendment adds assault of the landlord or their employees/contractors as an expedited ground, effective Aug. 1, 2026 |
A tenancy at will (including month-to-month) is ended by written notice 'at least as long as the interval between the time rent is due or three months, whichever is less' (§ 504B.135) — one month's written notice for a monthly tenancy |
No statewide just-cause requirement; a tenancy at will may be ended for no reason on proper notice (some cities, e.g. St. Paul, have their own just-cause ordinances — outside this survey's state-law scope) |
The 14-day nonpayment notice is 'deliver[ed] personally or by first class mail to the residential tenant at the address of the leased premises' (§ 504B.321 subd. 1a); a notice ending a tenancy at will need only be 'in writing' (§ 504B.135). The nonpayment notice's contents are mandatory — a complaint filed without attaching that notice must be dismissed without prejudice and the record expunged (§ 504B.321 subd. 1, subd. 5) |
Pay the total due within 14 days to stop a nonpayment filing. Even after suit, redeem the tenancy 'at any time before possession has been delivered' by paying the rent in arrears plus interest, costs, and up to a $5 attorney fee — unless the landlord also alleged a material lease violation (§ 504B.291). If nonpayment and lease-violation grounds are combined and the violation is not proven, the tenant gets up to 7 more days to pay (§ 504B.285 subd. 5). Retaliation is a defense, with a 90-day burden-shift onto the landlord (§ 504B.285 subd. 2; § 504B.441) |
| Mississippi verified 2026-07-10 | Mississippi's Residential Landlord and Tenant Act, Miss. Code Ann. ch. 8 of title 89 (§§ 89-8-1 to -45), modernized by Laws 2022, ch. 501 (effective on passage, Apr. 21, 2022). Breach/nonpayment notice § 89-8-13; repair remedy § 89-8-15; holdover after a fixed term § 89-8-17; periodic-tenancy termination § 89-8-19; the Justice Court residential eviction procedure §§ 89-8-31 to -43. Mississippi has its own act (not the uniform URLTA) and no statewide just cause |
3 days: if the tenant's breach is nonpayment, the landlord 'may deliver a notice ... specifying the rental agreement will terminate if payment of such rent is not made within three (3) days' (§ 89-8-13(5)(a)). The statute sets a flat 3 days and does not say weekends or holidays are excluded. Paying within the 3 days stops the termination; at a nonpayment eviction hearing the judge 'shall abide by the provisions of the rental agreement' the parties signed (§ 89-8-13(5)(b)) |
14 days to cure: for a material noncompliance other than rent, written notice specifying the breach and that the agreement terminates 'upon a date not less than fourteen (14) days after receipt of the notice if the breach is not remedied within a reasonable time not in excess of fourteen (14) days' (§ 89-8-13(3)). Remedying before the stated date keeps the tenancy (§ 89-8-13(3)(a)) |
Two paths with little or no cure. A repeat of substantially the same breach within 6 months (absent due care) can end the tenancy on at least 14 days' notice with no cure (§ 89-8-13(3)(b)). And 'notice to terminate a tenancy shall not be required to be given when the landlord or tenant has committed a substantial violation of the rental agreement or this chapter that materially affects health or safety' (§ 89-8-19(4)) — no notice period at all in that case |
Month-to-month: at least 30 days' written notice before the termination date; week-to-week: at least 7 days (§ 89-8-19(2)-(3)). A tenancy is week-to-week if the tenant pays weekly rent and month-to-month otherwise, unless the agreement fixes a definite term (§ 89-8-19(1)). A fixed-term lease expires on its stated date (§ 89-8-17(1)); a holdover tenant gets notice that eviction will begin 'no earlier than three (3) days after' it (§ 89-8-17(2)) |
No. Mississippi has no statewide just-cause requirement; a periodic tenancy may be ended on the § 89-8-19 notice with no reason stated. No 2025 legislation changed this. Local ordinances are outside this state-law survey |
Every pre-suit notice must be 'in writing, or by email or text message if the breaching party has agreed in writing to be notified by email or text message' (§ 89-8-13(3), (5)(a); § 89-8-17(2)) — a distinctive 2022 feature. No statute prescribes a single mandated delivery method (certified mail, posting) for the pre-suit notice, so keep proof of delivery. After the notice period, the landlord files a sworn affidavit or complaint with a copy of the notice and the tenant is summoned through the Justice Court residential eviction procedure (§§ 89-8-31 to -35) |
Cure by paying within 3 days (nonpayment, § 89-8-13(5)) or remedying within 14 days (other breach, § 89-8-13(3)(a)). A repair-and-deduct remedy exists: if the landlord fails to fix a material defect within 30 days of written notice, a tenant who is current on rent and has not used it in the prior 6 months may repair and offset up to one month's rent against future rent (§ 89-8-15). Retaliation is limited: after a lease expires the landlord may raise rent or evict a holdover only if that action 'did not have the dominant purpose of retaliation' against the tenant for actions authorized under the chapter and the landlord had written notice of the conditions (§ 89-8-17(2)). Possession is recovered through the Justice Court eviction procedure (§§ 89-8-31 et seq.), not by self-help lockout or utility shutoff |
| Missouri verified 2026-07-10 | Missouri — nonpayment 'rent and possession': RSMo ch. 535 (§§ 535.010, 535.020, 535.160); termination and grounds: ch. 441 (§§ 441.020, 441.030, 441.040, 441.060). Not a URLTA state; nonpayment uses a demand-and-file model, not a fixed notice count |
No fixed pay-or-quit period; the landlord need only demand the rent, then may file a rent-and-possession suit — the § 441.060 termination notice 'is not required' first (§ 535.020). Tenant redeems by paying back rent + costs (see cure) |
10 days' notice to VACATE — not cure-or-quit — for violating a written-lease condition, an unauthorized assignment/sublet, or committing waste (§§ 441.030, 441.040); no statutory right to fix and stay |
Illegal use — gambling, a bawdyhouse/brothel, or the illegal possession, sale, or distribution of controlled substances — voids the lease; landlord recovers possession after a 10-day notice to vacate (§§ 441.020, 441.040) |
Month-to-month / tenancy at will: one month's written notice, terminating on a periodic rent-paying date at least one month after the notice is received (§ 441.060) |
No statewide just-cause requirement; a periodic tenancy may be ended for no reason on one month's notice (some cities add local rules — outside this survey's state-law scope) |
The termination notice must be 'in writing' (§ 441.060); Missouri prescribes no particular delivery method for the pre-suit notice (personal delivery or posting-and-mailing are used in practice). The suit's summons is served through the ch. 535 / ch. 534 court process |
Nonpayment redemption: tendering all rent in arrears plus costs on the date the money judgment is entered stops the case; paying the money judgment plus costs before it becomes final stays eviction (§ 535.160). The lease-condition and illegal-use quits carry no statutory cure right, and Missouri's notice statutes provide no general anti-retaliation defense |
| Montana verified 2026-07-11 | Montana Residential Landlord and Tenant Act, Mont. Code Ann. Title 70, ch. 24 — noncompliance and nonpayment notices in § 70-24-422, ending a periodic tenancy in § 70-24-441, how notice is served in § 70-24-108, retaliation in § 70-24-431. A URLTA-based act |
3 days' written notice to pay or the tenancy terminates (§ 70-24-422(2)); the notice must state the nonpayment and the landlord's intent to terminate if the rent is not paid. Paying within the 3 days stops it. Calendar days |
For a curable lease breach, 14 days to remedy (§ 70-24-422(1)(d)) — the tenancy does not terminate if the tenant fixes it before the date in the notice (§ 70-24-422(1)(a)). Shorter 3-day notices apply to an unauthorized pet ((1)(b)), unauthorized occupants ((1)(c)), or verbal abuse of the landlord ((1)(f), curable). A repeat of the same violation within 6 months takes only 5 days ((1)(e)) |
3 days' written notice, no cure, when the tenant destroys, defaces, damages, or removes part of the premises (§ 70-24-422(3)) or creates a reasonable potential that the premises may be damaged or destroyed or neighboring tenants injured (§ 70-24-422(4)). A repeat of a prior noticed violation within 6 months also ends the tenancy on 5 days' notice with no cure (§ 70-24-422(1)(e)) |
Month-to-month: at least 30 days' written notice (§ 70-24-441(2)). Week-to-week: at least 7 days (§ 70-24-441(1)). A landlord may choose this 30-day no-cause route instead of serving a for-cause notice (§ 70-24-422(7)) |
No statewide just-cause requirement — a month-to-month tenancy may be ended for any reason on 30 days' notice (§ 70-24-441). A local ordinance could add more, which is outside this survey's state-law scope |
Written notice delivered in hand; or by certified mail or with a certificate of mailing (service deemed made 3 days after mailing); or to an email address the tenant gave in the rental agreement, complete on a read receipt or reply (§ 70-24-108). A for-cause notice must specify the acts or omissions constituting the noncompliance and the termination date (§ 70-24-422(1)) |
Cure by remedying the noncompliance before the date in the notice (§ 70-24-422(1)(a)); pay within 3 days for nonpayment (§ 70-24-422(2)). Retaliatory eviction is barred and is a defense — a complaint within the prior 6 months creates a rebuttable presumption of retaliation (§ 70-24-431), unless the tenant is in default in rent. A landlord who uses a lockout or shuts off utilities exposes itself to the tenant recovering possession plus up to 3 months' rent or treble damages (§ 70-24-411) |
| Nebraska verified 2026-07-10 | Nebraska Uniform Residential Landlord and Tenant Act (URLTA), Neb. Rev. Stat. §§ 76-1401 to 76-1449: tenant breach/nonpayment/criminal activity § 76-1431, periodic-tenancy termination § 76-1437, retaliation bar § 76-1439, how notice is given/received § 76-1413. The eviction (action for restitution of the premises) is §§ 76-1440, 76-1441. No statewide just cause |
7 calendar days: if rent is unpaid, the landlord may terminate only if the tenant 'fails to pay rent within seven calendar days after written notice' of the nonpayment and intent to terminate (§ 76-1431(2)). Paying the rent within the 7 days stops the termination — one of the longer pay-or-quit clocks in the country |
14 days to cure inside a 30-day termination: written notice specifying the acts and stating the tenancy terminates on a date not less than 30 days after receipt if the breach is not remedied in 14 days (§ 76-1431(1)). Adequately remedying the breach before the stated date keeps the tenancy |
Two no-cure routes. (1) A 5-day written notice, no cure, for violent criminal activity, the illegal sale of a controlled substance, or 'any other activity that threatens the health or safety' of others on the premises — including physical assault or its threat, illegal weapon use, or known controlled-substance possession (§ 76-1431(4)); but not if a non-household third party did it and the tenant sought a protective order, reported it to police, or obtained VAWA domestic-violence certification (§ 76-1431(5)). (2) A 14-day no-cure notice if substantially the same breach recurs within 6 months of a prior noticed breach (§ 76-1431(1)) |
Month-to-month: at least 30 days' written notice before the periodic rental date (§ 76-1437(2)); week-to-week: at least 7 days (§ 76-1437(1)). A willful bad-faith holdover exposes the tenant to up to 3 months' rent or treble actual damages plus attorney's fees (§ 76-1437(3)) |
No. Nebraska has no statewide just-cause requirement; a periodic tenancy may be ended for any lawful reason on the § 76-1437 notice, subject only to the § 76-1439 retaliation bar and fair-housing law. Local ordinances are outside this state-law survey |
A notice is received by the tenant when delivered in hand, mailed 'to the place held out by the tenant as the place for receipt of the communication, or in the absence of such designation, to the tenant's last-known place of residence,' or delivered by electronic means where the tenant has consented under the statute's e-delivery rules (§ 76-1413). The Act does not provide a post-on-the-door method for tenant notices; every termination notice must be in writing |
Pay within 7 days (nonpayment, § 76-1431(2)) or adequately remedy the breach before the termination date (lease breach, § 76-1431(1)) to keep the tenancy; the 5-day criminal-activity and 14-day repeat-breach notices carry no cure right. A tenant threatened with a criminal-activity eviction for another person's act has a statutory shield if the tenant sought a protective order, reported the activity to law enforcement, or obtained VAWA certification for domestic violence (§ 76-1431(5)). Retaliation is barred and is a defense to possession: a landlord may not raise rent, cut services, or bring/threaten an eviction after the tenant complained to a code agency or joined a tenants' union — unless the tenant caused the violation, is in default in rent, or the fix requires demolition (§ 76-1439) |
| Nevada verified 2026-07-10 | Nevada Revised Statutes ch. 40 (unlawful detainer and summary eviction) and ch. 118A (Residential Landlord and Tenant Act). Notice grounds: nonpayment §§ 40.2512 and 40.253; no-cause/end-of-tenancy § 40.251; lease-violation cure § 40.2516; waste/nuisance/unlawful-use/drugs § 40.2514. Service § 40.280; retaliation bar § 118A.510; self-help bar § 118A.390. Not a URLTA state; no statewide just cause |
7 judicial days: a written notice demanding rent or surrender; the tenant is an unlawful detainer only after the notice remains 'uncomplied with' for 'Seven judicial days for real property other than a commercial premises' (§ 40.2512(1)(b); same 7-judicial-day period on the common summary route, § 40.253(1)(a)). 'Judicial days' exclude the day of service, weekends, and court holidays, so the real deadline is longer than 7 calendar days. A weekly tenancy of 45 days or less may instead get a 4-day notice by the summary route (§ 40.253(1)(b)). Paying within the period stops it |
5 days to cure: for a neglect or failure to perform a lease condition (other than rent, nuisance, or the § 40.2514 grounds), a written notice requiring performance or surrender; within 5 days after service the tenant may 'perform the condition or covenant and thereby save the lease from forfeiture' (§ 40.2516(1)). If the violated covenant 'cannot afterwards be performed, then no notice need be given' |
3 days, no cure: a '3 days' notice to surrender' for a tenant who assigns or sublets contrary to the lease, commits or permits waste, sets up an unlawful business, maintains a nuisance, or violates the controlled-substances laws (NRS 453.011 to 453.552, except 453.336) on the premises (§ 40.2514). The statute builds in no opportunity to cure |
Month-to-month: at least 30 days' written notice; week-to-week: at least 7 days; tenancy at will: at least 5 days (§ 40.251(1)). A tenant 60 or older or with a physical or mental disability (not a week-to-week tenant) may request in writing, with proof, an additional 30 days (§ 40.251(2)). After the no-cause notice expires the landlord must still serve a 5-day unlawful-detainer notice (§ 40.254) before the court will order removal |
No. Nevada has no statewide just-cause requirement; a periodic tenancy may be ended with no reason on the § 40.251 notice. A 2023 bill (AB 340) that would have shifted the summary-eviction burden was vetoed and did not take effect. Local ordinances are outside this state-law survey |
The § 40.251, 40.2514, and 40.2516 notices 'must be served by the sheriff, a constable, a person who is licensed as a process server ... or the agent of an attorney' — the landlord may NOT serve them personally (§ 40.280(1)) — by (a) personal delivery, (b) substituted service on a suitable person plus mailing, or (c) posting plus delivery to a resident plus mailing. Exception: the § 40.253 summary nonpayment notice may be served by the landlord or the landlord's agent. Proof of service must be filed before any removal order or writ issues (§ 40.280(4)) |
Pay within the 7 judicial days (nonpayment) or cure within 5 days (lease violation) to stop the eviction (§§ 40.253, 40.2516). Nevada uses summary eviction: for no-cause, nuisance, and lease-violation grounds the tenant must file an affidavit with the court within 5 judicial days of the § 40.254 notice to contest and get a hearing; for nonpayment the tenant files within the 7-judicial-day window (§§ 40.253, 40.254). Retaliation is barred: a landlord may not terminate, refuse to renew, raise rent, cut services, or sue for possession because the tenant complained in good faith to a code or enforcement agency, joined a tenants' union, or exercised habitability rights (§ 118A.510), and it is a defense to possession. Self-help lockouts and utility shutoffs are prohibited (§ 118A.390) |
| New Hampshire verified 2026-07-11 | New Hampshire's eviction statute, RSA ch. 540 (Actions Against Tenants) — grounds in § 540:2, notice periods in § 540:3, service in § 540:5, the pay-and-stay cure in § 540:9, retaliation defense in § 540:13-a, habitability defense in § 540:13-d; 'restricted' vs. 'nonrestricted' property is defined in § 540:1-a |
7-day eviction notice to pay or quit for nonpayment 'upon demand' (§ 540:3, II; § 540:2, II(a)). The notice must state the reason with specificity and tell the tenant of the right to cure by paying (§ 540:3, III–IV). A demand for rent may be served first or with it (§ 540:5). Calendar days |
A material lease-term violation takes a 30-day eviction notice (§ 540:3, II; § 540:2, II(c)) — there is no separate statutory cure-or-quit window. For an 'other good cause' ground based on the tenant's conduct, the landlord must first give a written warning that the conduct is grounds for eviction (§ 540:2, III) |
No separate 'no-cure' quit statute; but the serious grounds — substantial damage to the premises (§ 540:2, II(b)) or behavior adversely affecting the health or safety of others (§ 540:2, II(d)) — get the shorter 7-day notice (§ 540:3, II), and the statutory pay-and-stay cure (§ 540:9) reaches only nonpayment, so there is no statutory right to cure these. Willful failure to prepare for pest remediation is also a ground (§ 540:2, II(g)) |
Depends on the property. 'Nonrestricted' property — a single-family home whose owner owns 3 or fewer, or an owner-occupied building of 4 units or fewer (§ 540:1-a, I) — may be ended without cause on 30 days' written notice (§ 540:2, I; § 540:3, II). For 'restricted' property (most other residential rentals) no-cause termination is barred; the landlord needs a § 540:2, II ground |
Yes, for 'restricted' property — the landlord 'may terminate any tenancy... but only for one of' the reasons in § 540:2, II (nonpayment, substantial damage, material lease breach, health/safety behavior, other good cause, lead abatement, pest-prep failure, domestic-violence perpetrator, and — effective July 1, 2026 — non-renewal of a 12-month-plus lease on 60 days' notice). 'Other good cause' is broad, including 'any legitimate business or economic reason' (§ 540:2, V). Small owner-occupied and single-family ('nonrestricted') rentals are exempt |
The demand for rent or eviction notice may be served by any person, personally or 'left at his or her last and usual place of abode,' proven by a true copy plus an affidavit of service (§ 540:5, I). It must state the reason with specificity (§ 540:3, III); a nonpayment notice must state the cure right (§ 540:3, IV). The district court provides model forms, and any valid notice must contain the same information (§ 540:5, II) |
Strong pay-and-stay: a nonpayment eviction 'shall be dismissed' if the tenant pays all rent due plus $15 liquidated damages and the landlord's filing/service costs any time before the hearing on the merits — but no more than 3 times in 12 months (§ 540:9). Retaliatory eviction is a defense (unless a week's rent or more is owed) after reporting a code violation, using the statutory remedies, or meeting with other tenants (§ 540:13-a). A habitability defense bars a nonpayment eviction where the unit substantially violates fitness standards and the landlord did not fix it within 14 days of written notice (§ 540:13-d). Domestic-violence victims have added protections (§ 540:2, VII) |
| New Jersey verified 2026-07-10 | Anti-Eviction Act — N.J.S.A. 2A:18-61.1 (the 'good cause' grounds) and § 2A:18-61.2 (the notice period for each ground and how it is served). Nonpayment redemption: § 2A:18-55. The older summary-dispossess notice-to-quit periods for the units the Act exempts: § 2A:18-56. Anti-reprisal (retaliation) protection: § 2A:42-10.10 to -10.12 |
No advance notice-to-quit period. Section 2A:18-61.2 excepts nonpayment (good-cause ground a) from the notice requirement, so the landlord makes a written demand for the rent and may file immediately. The tenant's protection is a strong pay-to-stay right — paying all rent in default plus costs any time before final judgment stops the case (§ 2A:18-55). (Federally subsidized housing has a separate 14-day federal notice.) |
A curable lease breach is a two-step path: first a written 'notice to cease' the conduct (built into grounds d, e, and j), then, if it continues, a one-month notice to quit before filing (§ 2A:18-61.2(b)). The notice to cease is the cure opportunity; the statute sets no fixed number of days on it, but the tenant must get the chance to stop before the one-month termination notice can issue |
Three days' notice, with no notice to cease, for the serious grounds: willful or grossly negligent destruction or damage to the premises (ground c) and the criminal grounds — a drug conviction, an assault or terroristic-threat conviction, a theft finding, or a human-trafficking finding on the premises (grounds m through r) — § 2A:18-61.2(a). Disorderly conduct (ground b) also carries only 3 days' notice to quit, but requires a prior written notice to cease |
Barred for a covered tenancy — New Jersey has no no-fault way to end a residential tenancy; the landlord must prove good cause, and a lease clause allowing termination without cause is unenforceable (§ 2A:18-61.4). Only the units the Act exempts (owner-occupied with two or fewer rental units; seasonal/transient) can be ended without cause, under the older statute: one month's notice to quit for a month-to-month tenancy, three months for a year-to-year or at-will tenancy (§ 2A:18-56) |
Yes — statewide, and from the first day of the tenancy with no durational threshold. The Anti-Eviction Act (§ 2A:18-61.1) lets a court remove a residential tenant only on one of its enumerated 'good cause' grounds. Exceptions: owner-occupied premises with no more than two rental units, and hotels/motels/guest houses rented to a transient or seasonal tenant |
The notice 'shall specify in detail the cause of the termination of the tenancy' and be served personally on the tenant, by leaving a copy at the tenant's usual place of abode 'with some member of his family above the age of 14 years,' or by certified mail — and if the certified letter is not claimed, by regular mail (§ 2A:18-61.2). A notice that fails to state the cause in detail, or that gives too few days for the ground, is defective |
Nonpayment: paying all rent in default plus costs before final judgment stops the case (§ 2A:18-55). Curable grounds (disorderly conduct, rule or covenant violations, habitual late payment) require a 'notice to cease' first — a chance to stop the conduct before any termination notice. Retaliation is barred outright: a landlord may not serve a notice to quit or sue for possession as a reprisal for the tenant enforcing rights, complaining in good faith to a government authority about a health or safety violation, or organizing (§ 2A:42-10.10), and a notice to quit received after such a protected act raises a rebuttable presumption of reprisal (§ 2A:42-10.12) |
| New Mexico verified 2026-07-10 | Uniform Owner-Resident Relations Act (UORRA), NMSA 1978 §§ 47-8-1 to 47-8-52: breach/nonpayment § 47-8-33, 'substantial violation' defined § 47-8-3(V), periodic-tenancy termination § 47-8-37, retaliation bar § 47-8-39, service of notice § 47-8-13. The eviction (petition by owner for restitution) is §§ 47-8-40 et seq. No statewide just cause |
3 days: if rent is unpaid, the landlord serves written notice of nonpayment and intent to terminate; the landlord may terminate if the resident fails to pay within 3 days (§ 47-8-33(D)). Tender of 'the full amount due, in the manner stated in the notice, prior to the expiration of the three-day notice shall bar any action for nonpayment of rent' — paying in time is an absolute stop |
7 days to cure: written notice specifying the acts (with 'dates and specific facts') and stating the tenancy terminates on a date not less than 7 days after receipt if not remedied in 7 days (§ 47-8-33(A)). The notice must be given within 30 days of the breach or the landlord's knowledge of it (§ 47-8-33(C)); if the last cure day is a weekend or federal holiday, it extends to the next business day (§ 47-8-33(H)) |
Two no-cure routes. (1) A 3-day notice for a 'substantial violation' — enumerated serious conduct only: sale/use/manufacture of a controlled substance (not misdemeanor possession/use), unlawful deadly-weapon use, serious physical harm, sexual assault, burglary, forcible theft, or intentional/reckless damage over $1,000, committed in the unit, on the premises, or within 300 feet (§§ 47-8-33(I), 47-8-3(V)). (2) A 7-day no-cure notice for a SECOND material breach within 6 months of the first, but only if the initial 7-day notice warned of it (§ 47-8-33(B)-(C)) |
Month-to-month: at least 30 days' written notice before the periodic rental date (§ 47-8-37(B)); week-to-week: at least 7 days (§ 47-8-37(A)). A notice given too late to make the 30 days still takes effect on the next rental date rather than being void |
No. New Mexico has no statewide just-cause requirement; a periodic tenancy may be ended for any lawful reason on the § 47-8-37 notice, subject only to the § 47-8-39 retaliation bar and fair-housing law. Local ordinances are outside this state-law survey |
Section 47-8-13(D): a nonpayment notice is effective when hand-delivered, mailed, OR posted on an exterior door of the unit. Every OTHER notice, even if posted, must ALSO be hand-delivered or mailed first-class — posting alone is not enough. The posting date must appear on the notice and is its effective date, and a posted notice must be taped on all sides or placed in a notice/mail receptacle |
Pay the full amount before the 3-day nonpayment notice expires (§ 47-8-33(D)), or remedy a lease breach within 7 days (§ 47-8-33(A)), to stop the eviction; cure days ending on a weekend/holiday extend to the next business day (§ 47-8-33(H)). Against a substantial-violation eviction, the resident may raise being a domestic-violence victim (§ 47-8-33(J)), not knowing of or being unable to prevent another's act (§ 47-8-33(K)), or reasonable self-defense (§ 47-8-33(L)); a frivolous or bad-faith action costs the owner twice the monthly rent plus damages (§ 47-8-33(M)). Retaliation is barred and is a defense to possession: the landlord may not raise rent, cut services, or bring/threaten an eviction because, within the previous 6 months, the resident complained to a code agency, joined a residents' union, exercised UORRA rights (including a written repair request), made a fair-housing complaint, sued or prevailed against the owner, testified for another resident, or abated rent (§ 47-8-39) |
| New York verified 2026-07-10 | Summary proceedings: RPAPL Art. 7 (§§ 711, 735, 751, 753). No-cause/non-renewal notice: RPL § 226-c. Just cause: RPL Art. 6-A, the 'Good Cause Eviction Law' (§§ 210–216). Retaliation: RPL § 223-b |
14 days' written rent demand — 'at least fourteen days' notice' to pay the rent or give up possession (RPAPL § 711(2)); calendar days, not business days; paying stops the case. The notice must append the § 231-c good-cause disclosure |
No general pre-suit cure-or-quit statute; the lease sets the predicate notice. For a Good-Cause-covered tenant, a substantial-obligation breach needs a 10-day written notice to cure first (RPL § 216(1)(b)); statewide, the court must grant a 30-day stay to cure a lease breach before issuing the warrant (RPAPL § 753(4)) |
No fixed-day unconditional-quit notice; serious misconduct (nuisance, or use of the premises for an illegal business — RPAPL § 711(5)) is pursued as a holdover after a lease-based termination notice. The § 753(4) cure stay does not apply where the landlord proves the tenant 'objectionable' (RPAPL § 753(3)) |
Ending a month-to-month tenancy or not renewing a lease: 30 days if the tenant has occupied under 1 year; 60 days for 1–2 years; 90 days for 2+ years (RPL § 226-c(2)). In a Good-Cause-covered unit a no-reason termination/non-renewal is barred (RPL § 215) |
Yes in New York City (automatic) and in any village, town, or city that opts in by local law (RPL §§ 212–213); a covered tenancy may end only for an enumerated good cause (RPL §§ 215–216). Many exemptions (small landlords and owner-occupied buildings ≤10 units, new construction, high-rent units). Enacted 2024; scheduled to be repealed June 15, 2034 |
Personal delivery; or leave with a person of suitable age and discretion at the premises and mail by both registered/certified and first-class mail within one day (substituted); or affix to a conspicuous part of / place under the door of the premises plus mail (conspicuous-place) — RPAPL § 735(1) |
Nonpayment: deposit all rent due plus costs before the warrant issues to stay eviction (RPAPL § 751(1)), and a nonpayment case may be permanently stayed on payment (RPL § 216(3)). Lease breach: 30-day court cure stay (RPAPL § 753(4)). Retaliatory eviction is barred, with a one-year rebuttable presumption (RPL § 223-b) |
| North Carolina verified 2026-07-10 | Summary ejectment: N.C. Gen. Stat. ch. 42, art. 3 (grounds in § 42-26). Nonpayment forfeiture / 10-day demand: § 42-3. Periodic-tenancy notice to quit: § 42-14. Retaliatory-eviction defense: § 42-37.1 |
A demand for all past-due rent, then a 10-day period to pay; if the tenant does not pay within 10 days after the demand, the lease term is forfeited and the landlord may file summary ejectment (§ 42-3). Paying in full within the 10 days prevents forfeiture. Calendar days |
No statutory cure period. If the lease makes a breach forfeit the term, the landlord demands surrender and may file summary ejectment on that ground (§ 42-26(a)(2)); any right to cure comes from the lease, not state law |
No separate statutory unconditional-quit tier with its own day count; a holdover after the term expires, or a forfeiture the lease itself defines, is a ground for summary ejectment after a demand for surrender (§ 42-26(a)(1)-(2)) |
Notice to quit a periodic tenancy (§ 42-14): 7 days for month-to-month, 2 days for week-to-week, and one month or more before the year ends for year-to-year (60 days for a manufactured-home space) |
No statewide just-cause requirement; a periodic tenancy may be ended for any reason on the § 42-14 notice to quit. Local rules are outside this survey's state-law scope |
The statute fixes no delivery method: § 42-3 requires a 'demand' for past-due rent and § 42-14 a 'notice to quit,' but neither section specifies that it be in writing, mailed, posted, or personally served. (The summary-ejectment summons itself is later served through the court, which is beyond this notice survey.) |
For nonpayment, paying all past-due rent within the 10 days after the demand prevents forfeiture (§ 42-3). Retaliatory eviction is an affirmative defense: in a § 42-26 summary ejectment the tenant may show the landlord acted substantially in response, within 12 months, to a protected act — a good-faith repair complaint, a complaint to a government agency, exercising a legal right, or organizing tenants (§ 42-37.1) — but the landlord still prevails on a genuine rent or lease breach, a holdover, or the other § 42-37.1(c) grounds |
| North Dakota verified 2026-07-11 | Two chapters of the North Dakota Century Code. Evictions are ch. 47-32 — the grounds are in § 47-32-01 and the required pre-suit 3-day notice is in § 47-32-02. Periodic-tenancy termination and change-of-terms notice are in ch. 47-16 (§§ 47-16-07, 47-16-15). North Dakota did not adopt URLTA |
Rent must be at least 3 days past due (a ground under § 47-32-01(4)); then '3 days' written notice of intention to evict must be given' before an eviction action can be filed (§ 47-32-02). The statute sets no separate cure period, but paying moots the ground. Calendar days (the statute does not specify business days) |
A breach of 'a material term of the written lease agreement' is a ground (§ 47-32-01(8)) and requires the same 3-day written notice of intention to evict before filing (§ 47-32-02). North Dakota sets no separate statutory cure period — whether the breach can be fixed is governed by the lease, not the Code |
One ground skips the pre-suit notice: a lessee (or a person there with the lessee's consent) who 'acts in a manner that unreasonably disturbs other tenants' peaceful enjoyment' (§ 47-32-01(7)) is not on § 47-32-02's list of grounds (subsections 4, 5, 6, 8) that require the 3-day notice, so an eviction on that ground can proceed without one |
Month-to-month: at least one calendar month's written notice, given at any time, with rent due to the termination date (§ 47-16-15(2)). A change-of-terms notice takes 30 days (§ 47-16-07). North Dakota counts a calendar month, not a fixed 30-day period |
No statewide just-cause requirement — a month-to-month tenancy may be ended for any reason on one calendar month's notice (§ 47-16-15). Local rent control is barred by statute (§ 47-16-02.1); other local ordinances fall outside this survey's state-law scope |
The 3-day notice of intention to evict is 'served and returned as a summons is served and returned,' or, if the party cannot be found, by the sheriff or a process server 'posting the notice conspicuously upon the premises' (§ 47-32-02). A change-of-terms or periodic-tenancy notice may be served 'in any reasonable manner which actually informs the tenant' (§ 47-16-07); the § 47-16-15 termination notice must be written |
No general statutory pay-to-cure right and no general anti-retaliation statute (only a narrow bar on retaliation against a tenant who ends a lease due to domestic abuse, § 47-16-17.1(10)). A tenant's main statutory tools are the landlord's habitability duty (§ 47-16-13.1) and repair-and-deduct or lease-termination when the landlord fails to repair after notice (§ 47-16-13); the landlord must use the court eviction process (ch. 47-32), not self-help |
| Ohio verified 2026-07-10 | Eviction (forcible entry & detainer): Ohio Rev. Code ch. 1923 — pre-suit notice to leave in § 1923.04. Periodic-tenancy termination: § 5321.17. Health/safety-breach cure notice: § 5321.11. Retaliation defense: § 5321.02 |
At least 3 days' written notice to leave the premises before filing (§ 1923.04); no statutory grace period or right to cure by paying — accepting late rent is at the landlord's discretion. The notice must carry the exact statutory 'you are being asked to leave the premises' language |
For a tenant's material health/safety breach of a statutory duty: 30 days' written notice specifying the violation, with a right to remedy within that period (§ 5321.11); if not remedied, the tenancy ends and a 3-day notice to leave follows. Other lease-condition breaches: per the lease, then the 3-day notice to leave |
Drug-related activity: the landlord must give a 3-day termination notice with no cure (§ 5321.17(C)), which itself satisfies the § 1923.04 notice. No general unconditional-quit tier for other conduct |
Month-to-month: at least 30 days' notice before the periodic rental date; week-to-week: at least 7 days (§ 5321.17(A)-(B)). After the tenancy ends the landlord must still serve the 3-day notice to leave (§ 1923.04) before filing |
No statewide just-cause requirement; a landlord may end a month-to-month tenancy for any reason on at least 30 days' notice (§ 5321.17). Local rules are outside this survey's state-law scope |
Certified mail, return receipt requested; personal hand delivery to the tenant; or leaving a written copy at the tenant's usual place of abode or at the premises (§ 1923.04(A)). Every residential notice must include the exact statutory 'you are being asked to leave the premises' warning |
No statutory right to cure a rent default by paying. A § 5321.11 health/safety breach may be remedied within the 30-day period. Retaliation is a statutory defense: a landlord may not raise rent, cut services, or bring/threaten an eviction because the tenant reported a code violation, complained of the landlord's statutory duties, or organized with other tenants (§ 5321.02) — the tenant may raise it as a defense, recover possession, or terminate, plus actual damages and attorney fees |
| Oklahoma verified 2026-07-10 | Oklahoma Residential Landlord and Tenant Act, 41 O.S. §§ 101–136: nonpayment § 131(B); lease-noncompliance cure § 132; periodic-tenancy termination + service § 111. The eviction (forcible entry & detainer) suit itself is under 12 O.S. § 1148.1 et seq. No URLTA-style unconditional-quit grid; no statewide just cause; no anti-retaliation statute |
5 days: a written demand for the rent; the landlord may terminate only if the tenant fails to pay within 5 days after the notice (§ 131(B)). Paying within 5 days cures. A demand for past-due rent is itself deemed a demand for possession — no separate notice to quit is needed |
For a curable material violation: written notice specifying the acts; the tenancy terminates on a date not less than 15 days after receipt unless the tenant remedies within 10 days (§ 132(B)). Fixing within the 10 days stops the termination |
No cure where the noncompliance causes or threatens imminent, irremediable harm to the premises or a person — landlord may file the eviction immediately (§ 132(C)); criminal or drug-related activity by the tenant, household, or guest is grounds for immediate lease termination (§ 132(D)); a repeat of the same breach permits immediate termination on written notice (§ 132(B)) |
Month-to-month or tenancy at will: 30 days' written notice by either party (§ 111(A)); a tenancy less than month-to-month (e.g. week-to-week): 7 days (§ 111(B)). A fixed-term lease expires on its end date with no notice (§ 111(C)) |
No. Oklahoma has no statewide just-cause requirement; a landlord may end a periodic tenancy for any lawful reason on the 30-day (or 7-day) notice. Local ordinances are outside this state-law survey |
Personal service on the tenant; if the tenant can't be located, delivery to a resident family member over age 12; if neither works, posting conspicuously on the dwelling AND mailing a copy by certified or accountable mail (§ 111(E)) |
Nonpayment: pay within the 5-day window to cure (§ 131(B)). Lease violation: remedy within 10 days to stop a § 132(B) termination. Oklahoma's Act provides NO retaliatory-eviction defense — it is one of only a few states without one — so the cure windows are the main statutory protection; a domestic-violence/stalking victim may end a lease early with a protective order (§ 111(F)) |
| Oregon verified 2026-07-10 | Oregon Residential Landlord and Tenant Act, ORS ch. 90: nonpayment § 90.394; for-cause + cure § 90.392; 24-hour serious cause § 90.396; no-cause/just-cause § 90.427 (statewide just cause, 2019 SB 608); service § 90.155; retaliation § 90.385 |
10 days' written notice given no sooner than the 8th day of the rental period, OR 13 days' notice given no sooner than the 5th day (§ 90.394(2)); week-to-week is 72 hours, no sooner than the 5th day. Notice must state the amount due; paying it within the period cures |
30-day for-cause notice with at least 14 days to cure a curable material violation (§ 90.392(3)-(4)); the notice must specify the acts and describe a remedy. Week-to-week: 30 days becomes 7, the 14-day cure becomes 4 |
Repeat of substantially the same violation within 6 months: 10-day notice, no cure (§ 90.392(5)). 24-hour notice, no cure, for serious threats or injury, reckless endangerment, or intentional substantial damage (§ 90.396) |
Month-to-month: 30 days from either party, but the landlord may end without cause only during the tenant's first year of occupancy (§ 90.427(3)); week-to-week: 10 days either party. After the first year, a no-cause end is barred — see just cause |
Yes (SB 608, 2019). After the first year of occupancy, the landlord may end a month-to-month or post-fixed-term tenancy only for tenant cause or a qualifying landlord reason (demolition/conversion, unfit-for-occupancy repairs, landlord/family move-in, sale to an owner-occupant), with 90 days' notice (60 on a qualifying sale with payment) plus one month's rent relocation — landlords owning 4 or fewer units are exempt from the payment (§ 90.427(5)-(6)). No sunset |
Personal delivery; first class mail (adds 3 days to the notice period); or mail-plus-attachment or email only if the written rental agreement/addendum provides for it (§ 90.155) |
Nonpayment: paying the stated amount within the notice period reinstates; mailed payment within the period is timely unless the notice was personally served or the lease sets an on-site pay location (§ 90.394(4)). Curable for-cause violation: curing by the designated date stops it (§ 90.392(4)). Retaliatory termination after a habitability complaint, code report, or tenant organizing is prohibited and a defense (§ 90.385) |
| Pennsylvania verified 2026-07-10 | The Landlord and Tenant Act of 1951, 68 P.S. §§ 250.501–250.513 (Article V, 'Recovery of Possession'). No statewide just-cause law. The Act's notice periods can be shortened or waived by the lease (§ 250.501(e)) |
10 days' written notice to quit for 'failure of the tenant, upon demand, to satisfy any rent reserved and due' (§ 250.501(b)); calendar days. It is a notice to remove, not a cure period — and the notice can be shortened or waived by the lease (§ 250.501(e)), which many leases do |
No cure-or-quit statute. A lease breach is a 'forfeiture for breach of the conditions of the lease' → 15 days' notice to quit if the lease term is 1 year or less/indeterminate, 30 days if over 1 year (§ 250.501(b)). No statutory right to cure; waivable by the lease (§ 250.501(e)) |
No separate fixed unconditional-quit category; a lease-condition breach forfeits the lease and is handled by the 15/30-day notice to quit above, with no cure right. A termination under § 250.505-A carries a 10-day notice to quit (§ 250.501(d)) |
Ending a month-to-month (an 'indeterminate' term) or a lease at term's end: 15 days' notice to quit if the term is 1 year or less/indeterminate; 30 days if over 1 year (§ 250.501(b)). Waivable by the lease (§ 250.501(e)); no reason required |
No. Pennsylvania has no statewide just-cause requirement; a tenancy may be ended on proper notice at the end of its term or on a lease forfeiture. (Some cities, e.g. Philadelphia, add local good-cause rules — outside this survey's state-law scope) |
Personally on the tenant; or by leaving the notice at the principal building upon the premises; or by posting it conspicuously on the leased premises (§ 250.501(f)). No mailing is required |
Nonpayment pay-and-stay: any time before the writ of possession is executed, a tenant sued 'solely because of failure to pay rent due' may stop the eviction by paying the rent in arrears plus costs (§ 250.503(c)). No statutory right to cure a non-rent lease breach. Appeal to Common Pleas operates as a stay only if ongoing rent is escrowed (§ 250.513(b)) |
| Rhode Island verified 2026-07-11 | Rhode Island Residential Landlord and Tenant Act, R.I. Gen. Laws Title 34, ch. 18 — nonpayment in § 34-18-35, lease noncompliance in § 34-18-36, ending a periodic tenancy in § 34-18-37, holding over in § 34-18-38, the statutory notice forms in § 34-18-56, retaliation in § 34-18-46. A URLTA-derived act |
Rent must first be 15 days in arrears; then the landlord mails a 5-day written demand to pay (§ 34-18-35(a)). Paying the full arrears within 5 days of the mailing date stops it, and suit may be filed no earlier than the 6th day after mailing. Calendar days, counted from the date of mailing |
20 days to remedy a material lease breach (or a health-and-safety breach of the tenant's duties under § 34-18-24), by a mailed written demand naming the breach and how to cure it; the termination date must be at least 21 days after mailing (§ 34-18-36(a)). Curing before that date stops termination (§ 34-18-36(b)) |
No cure and no advance notice for a narcotics nuisance, manufacture/sale/delivery of a controlled substance, or a crime of violence on or next to the premises (§ 34-18-24(8)–(10)) — the landlord may file for eviction immediately (§ 34-18-36(f)). A repeat of substantially the same breach within 6 months takes a 20-day notice with no chance to remedy (§ 34-18-36(e)) |
Month-to-month (or any periodic tenancy over a month and under a year): at least 30 days' written notice (§ 34-18-37(b)). Week-to-week: at least 10 days (§ 34-18-37(a)). Year-to-year: at least 3 months (§ 34-18-37(c)). Calendar days |
No statewide just-cause requirement for ordinary tenancies — a periodic tenancy may be ended for no reason on § 34-18-37 notice. Narrow exception: a foreclosing owner may not evict a tenant of a foreclosed property except for just cause (§ 34-18-38.2). Local ordinances may add more (outside this survey's state-law scope) |
Nonpayment and noncompliance demands must be sent by regular first-class U.S. mail; the statutory forms carry a mailing certification and both cure clocks run from the date of mailing (§§ 34-18-35, 34-18-36, 34-18-56). A person is notified when a notice is delivered in hand or sent by first-class mail to the place held out for receipt or the last-known residence (§ 34-18-14(b)). The notice must be substantially in the § 34-18-56 form |
Nonpayment: pay the full arrears within the 5 days, or tender full rent before suit; if no demand notice went out in the prior 6 months, the tenant may still cure after suit by paying the arrears plus court costs at the hearing (§ 34-18-35(e)). Lease breach: remedy before the notice date (§ 34-18-36(b)). Retaliatory eviction is barred and is a defense — a complaint within 6 months creates a presumption of retaliation (§ 34-18-46). A self-help lockout or utility shutoff lets the tenant recover possession plus up to 3 months' rent or treble damages (§§ 34-18-44, 34-18-34) |
| South Carolina verified 2026-07-10 | South Carolina Residential Landlord and Tenant Act, S.C. Code §§ 27-40-10 to -940 (a Uniform Residential Landlord and Tenant Act state). Nonpayment and lease-violation notices § 27-40-710; health-and-safety noncompliance § 27-40-720; periodic-tenancy termination § 27-40-770; notice/delivery rules § 27-40-240; retaliation defense § 27-40-910. The eviction suit itself is an 'ejectment' in magistrate's court under a separate chapter |
5 days. The landlord must give written notice of nonpayment and intent to terminate; paying within 5 days of the due date stops it (§ 27-40-710(B)). Major trap: the notice duty is satisfied for the whole tenancy after ONE such notice, or if the lease contains the statute's conspicuous 'you will get no other notice as long as you live in this rental unit' language — then no separate 5-day notice is needed before filing |
14 days to cure. For a non-rent breach, the landlord delivers written notice specifying the acts and omissions; the tenancy ends no sooner than 14 days after receipt unless the tenant remedies it within 14 days — or, if the fix cannot be finished in 14 days, begins it within that period and pursues it in good faith (§ 27-40-710(A)). A health-and-safety breach follows the same 14-day cure notice (§ 27-40-720) |
No statutory unconditional-quit (no-cure) notice. South Carolina's Act did not adopt the uniform act's repeat-violation no-cure clause; every non-rent breach, however serious, runs through the 14-day cure-or-quit of § 27-40-710(A) (or the § 27-40-720 health-and-safety notice). Abandonment lets the landlord retake possession without notice (§ 27-40-730), but that is not an eviction notice |
30 days to end a month-to-month tenancy; 7 days for week-to-week — written notice by either party before the termination date stated in the notice (§ 27-40-770(a),(b)). No reason need be given |
No statewide just-cause requirement; a periodic tenancy may be ended for no reason on proper notice under § 27-40-770 (some cities or counties may add their own rules — outside this survey's state-law scope) |
Written notice must be delivered so it is 'received': handed in person to the tenant, or mailed by registered or certified mail to the address the tenant holds out (or the last known residence); 'proof of mailing... constitutes notice without proof of receipt' (§ 27-40-240(B)(3)). The nonpayment and lease-violation notices must specify the breach; time is computed under the SC Rules of Civil Procedure (§ 27-40-240(D)) |
Pay within the 5-day nonpayment window, or remedy a lease breach within the 14-day cure period, to stop termination (§ 27-40-710). The Act sets no post-notice statutory pay-and-stay for nonpayment once the 5 days run. Retaliatory eviction is a defense — a landlord may not bring a possession action because the tenant complained to a housing-code agency or complained to the landlord of an Act violation (§ 27-40-910) |
| South Dakota verified 2026-07-11 | Two titles. Evictions ('forcible entry and detainer') are in SDCL ch. 21-16, with the grounds in § 21-16-1. Periodic-tenancy termination notice is in Title 43, ch. 43-32 (§§ 43-32-13, 43-32-15), and a landlord's mid-term termination for lease misuse is § 43-32-18. South Dakota did not adopt URLTA and sets unusually few pre-suit written-notice requirements |
No statutory pay-or-quit notice. A forcible-detainer action is 'maintainable' once a tenant 'fails to pay his rent for three days after the same shall be due' (§ 21-16-1(4)); the old standalone 3-day notice-to-quit section (§ 21-16-2) was repealed in 2024 (SL 2024, ch 75). The 3 days runs as a waiting period from the due date, and the statute grants no cure/reinstatement right |
No statutory cure period. A landlord 'may terminate a lease and reclaim the premises before the end of the agreed term' when the tenant 'uses or permits a use of the premises in a manner contrary to the lease agreement' or fails to make required repairs after request (§ 43-32-18); an action also lies for waste or an act that under the lease terms terminates it (§ 21-16-1(7)) |
No separate statutory 'unconditional quit' category with its own day count — the § 43-32-18 lease-misuse ground and the § 21-16-1(7) waste ground carry no statutory cure period, so whether conduct is curable is set by the lease, not the Code |
Month-to-month (and other periodic tenancies): at least 30 days' / one month's written notice before the end of the rental month (§ 43-32-13 (30-day modification/termination notice); § 43-32-15 (periodic tenancy renews unless notice is given 'at least as long before... as the term of the hiring itself, not exceeding one month')). Calendar days |
No statewide just-cause requirement — a periodic tenancy may be ended for any reason on the § 43-32-13 / § 43-32-15 notice. Local ordinances may add more (outside this survey's state-law scope) |
The § 43-32-13 periodic-tenancy notice must be 'in writing,' but the Code prescribes no single mandatory delivery method or required content for the pre-suit notice. (Service of the later court summons in the forcible-detainer action is separately governed by ch. 21-16.) |
No statutory pay-to-cure right for nonpayment and no anti-retaliation statute — a tenant's protections come mainly from the lease and from the requirement that the landlord use the court process, not self-help. If a landlord 'unlawfully removes or excludes the tenant' or willfully cuts off electric, gas, water, or other essential service, the tenant may sue for injunctive relief, recover possession, or terminate and recover 'damages in an amount equal to two months rent' plus return of advance rent and deposit (§ 43-32-6) |
| Tennessee verified 2026-07-10 | Two regimes. The Uniform Residential Landlord and Tenant Act (URLTA), Tenn. Code Ann. Title 66 ch. 28, governs counties over 75,000 population (§ 66-28-102): cure/nonpayment § 66-28-505, periodic termination § 66-28-512, violence § 66-28-517, retaliation § 66-28-514. Smaller counties use § 66-7-109. The eviction suit is a detainer under Title 29 ch. 18 |
14 days' written notice; paying the rent within the 14 days after receipt cures and the tenancy continues (URLTA § 66-28-505(a); non-URLTA § 66-7-109(a)(1)). Calendar days counted from receipt |
14 days to cure a remediable material breach; if not cured the agreement terminates (§ 66-28-505(a)(2)). A non-remediable breach terminates on at least 14 days' notice (§ 66-28-505(a)(3)) |
3 days (URLTA counties) for a violent act, a real-and-present danger, a hazardous/unsanitary condition, or refusing to leave as an unauthorized occupant (§ 66-28-517) — no cure; a repeat of substantially the same breach within 6 months = 7 days, no cure (§ 66-28-505(a)(2)(B)). In non-URLTA counties a violent act gets 14 days (§ 66-7-109) |
Month-to-month: 30 days' written notice before the periodic rental date (§ 66-28-512(b)); week-to-week: 10 days (§ 66-28-512(a)) |
No statewide just-cause requirement; a periodic tenancy may be ended for no reason on proper notice, subject to the retaliation bar (§ 66-28-514) |
Written notice specifying the acts constituting the breach, delivered to and received by the tenant; each notice period runs from the tenant's receipt of the notice (§§ 66-28-505, 66-28-517) |
Paying rent or curing a remediable breach within the 14-day period saves the tenancy (§ 66-28-505(a)(2); § 66-7-109). Retaliation is barred: no rent increase, service cut, or possession action because the tenant complained of a § 66-28-301 violation or used the Act's remedies (§ 66-28-514) |
| Texas verified 2026-07-10 | Eviction (forcible detainer): Tex. Prop. Code ch. 24, rewritten by S.B. 38 (89th Leg., 2025) for petitions filed on or after Jan. 1, 2026. Month-to-month termination: § 91.001. Retaliation defense: § 92.331 |
At least 3 days' written notice to vacate before filing, unless the lease sets a shorter or longer period (§ 24.005(a)); calendar-day count — § 24.0042 counts weekends/holidays but excludes the delivery day and rolls a final weekend/holiday day forward. Must be a 'notice to pay rent or vacate' if the tenant was not late in any earlier month, so paying then avoids suit |
Same at-least-3-day notice to vacate (§ 24.005(a)); no separate statutory cure-or-quit period — any right to fix a curable breach comes from the lease, not state law |
No separate unconditional-quit category; every default or holdover gets the same at-least-3-day (or lease-set) notice to vacate under § 24.005(a), regardless of the conduct |
Month-to-month: either party ends it on notice; a monthly tenancy terminates on the later of the date in the notice or one month after notice is given (§ 91.001(b)); a signed agreement may set a different period or none (§ 91.001(e)). The landlord must still give the § 24.005 3-day notice to vacate before filing |
No statewide just-cause requirement; a landlord may end a month-to-month tenancy for any reason on proper notice (Tex. Prop. Code § 91.001). Local rules are outside this survey's state-law scope |
At least one of: mail (first-class, registered, certified, or a delivery service); leaving it inside the premises in a conspicuous place; hand delivery to a tenant 16 or older; or e-mail/electronic if the parties agreed in writing (§ 24.005(f-3)) — unless the tenant actually receives the notice (§ 24.005(f-4)) |
No general statutory right to cure by paying or fixing within the notice period (the pay-or-vacate form gives a pay option only when the tenant was not previously late; otherwise the lease controls). Retaliation is a statutory defense: within 6 months of a protected act the landlord may not file an eviction, cut services, raise rent, or end the lease (§ 92.331), except on the grounds § 92.332 lists |
| Utah verified 2026-07-10 | Utah Forcible Entry and Detainer Act, Utah Code §§ 78B-6-801 to -816: notice grounds and periods § 78B-6-802, service § 78B-6-805. Habitability duties and renter remedies: Utah Fit Premises Act, Title 57 ch. 22. Utah did not adopt URLTA; no statewide just-cause requirement |
3 business days to pay the rent and other amounts due or surrender the premises — a business-day count that skips weekends and holidays (changed from calendar days in 2020) (§ 78B-6-802(1)(c)). Paying within the period avoids unlawful detainer |
3 calendar days to perform the lease covenant or surrender, for a curable breach not otherwise listed (§ 78B-6-802(1)(h)); the tenant may perform within the notice period and 'save the lease from forfeiture' (§ 78B-6-802(2)) |
3 calendar days' notice to quit, no cure, for waste or unauthorized assignment/subletting (§ 78B-6-802(1)(d)), an unlawful business (1)(e), a private nuisance (1)(f), or a criminal act on the premises (1)(g) |
Month-to-month/periodic tenancy: at least 15 calendar days' notice to quit before the end of the period (§ 78B-6-802(1)(b)(i)) — shorter than the usual 30. Tenancy at will: not less than 5 calendar days (1)(b)(ii). A fixed term ends on its date without notice (1)(a) |
No. Utah has no statewide just-cause requirement; a landlord may end a periodic tenancy for any lawful reason on the 15-day notice. Local ordinances are outside this state-law survey |
Personal delivery; or registered/certified mail (or an equivalent means) to the tenant's residence, leased property, or usual place of business; if the tenant is absent, leave a copy with a person of suitable age and discretion there; only if none can be found, post conspicuously on the property (§ 78B-6-805) |
Pay within the 3 business days (nonpayment) or perform the covenant within the notice period to avoid eviction and save the lease (§ 78B-6-802(2)). The Fit Premises Act has NO general anti-retaliation-eviction statute — only a bar on penalizing or evicting a renter for requesting public-safety help (§ 57-22-5.1(10)); a renter facing an uncured habitability defect may use rent abatement or repair-and-deduct (capped at two months' rent) after a Notice of Deficient Condition, but only if current on rent (§ 57-22-6) |
| Vermont verified 2026-07-11 | Vermont's Residential Rental Agreements Act, 9 V.S.A. ch. 137. Every termination-notice period is in § 4467; 'actual notice' is defined in § 4451; retaliation is barred by § 4465. After a valid termination the landlord recovers possession by an ejectment action under § 4468 and 12 V.S.A. ch. 169. Vermont did not adopt URLTA |
14 days. The landlord terminates for nonpayment 'by providing actual notice to the tenant of the date on which the tenancy will terminate, which shall be at least 14 days after the date of the actual notice' (§ 4467(a)). Pay-to-stay is strong and explicit: 'The rental agreement shall not terminate if the tenant pays or tenders rent due through the end of the rental period in which payment is made or tendered,' and accepting a partial payment is not a waiver. Calendar days |
30 days. For 'failure of the tenant to comply with a material term of the rental agreement or with obligations imposed under this chapter,' the landlord gives 'actual notice... at least 30 days prior to the termination date specified in the notice' (§ 4467(b)(1)). The statute grants no express right to cure a non-rent breach (unlike the nonpayment pay-to-stay right), and Vermont trial courts are split on whether the notice must even describe a cure opportunity — so fixing the problem does not guarantee the tenancy survives |
14 days. When termination is 'based on criminal activity, illegal drug activity, or acts of violence, any of which threaten the health or safety of other residents,' the landlord may set a termination date 'at least 14 days from the date of the actual notice' (§ 4467(b)(2)), with no cure. This is Vermont's only shortened fault notice — there is no separate waste/nuisance category |
No statewide just cause, but long notice. No written agreement, monthly rent: 60 days if the tenant has resided there two years or less, 90 days if more than two years (§ 4467(c)(1)); weekly rent, 21 days (§ 4467(c)(2)). Under a written agreement: at least 30 days before the term ends (≤2 years) or 60 days (>2 years), and 7 days for a written week-to-week (§ 4467(e)). A landlord who has contracted to sell may end a no-written-agreement tenancy on 30 days (§ 4467(d)); a landlord renting rooms in their own home gives 15 days (monthly) or 7 days (weekly) (§ 4467(h)) |
No statewide just-cause requirement — Vermont expressly permits no-cause termination of a periodic tenancy, just on long notice (60/90 days, § 4467(c)). Reform bills that would have added a just-cause regime and rent caps (H.440, H.772, and S.309) all died in the 2025–2026 biennium. Some municipalities impose their own overlay — Burlington's charter requires longer no-cause notice — outside this survey's state-law scope |
By 'actual notice,' defined as 'receipt of written notice hand-delivered or mailed to the last known address'; a first-class or certified mailing creates 'a rebuttable presumption that the notice was received three days after mailing' (§ 4451(1)). Every notice must state the specific termination date (§ 4467(f)), and a nonpayment notice must state the rent due. Posting alone is not a listed method. Only after a valid termination may the landlord bring an ejectment action for possession (§ 4468; 12 V.S.A. ch. 169) — a defective notice cannot support the eviction |
The central protection is the nonpayment pay-to-stay right: paying or tendering all rent due through the end of the rental period before the termination date keeps the tenancy, and partial payment is no waiver (§ 4467(a)). Retaliation is barred — a landlord may not bring or threaten an action against a tenant who complained to a housing agency, complained to the landlord of a chapter violation, or organized/joined a tenants' union (§ 4465(a)); the tenant then 'has a defense in any retaliatory action for possession' and may recover damages and fees (§ 4465(b)). Retaliation is presumed if a non-rent termination is served within 90 days after a government notice that the premises violate health/safety rules (§ 4465(c)) |
| Virginia verified 2026-07-10 | Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act (VRLTA), Va. Code Title 55.1, ch. 12. Tenant breach and nonpayment: § 55.1-1245. Ending a periodic tenancy: § 55.1-1253. How notice is served: § 55.1-1202. Tenant's pay-and-stay redemption: § 55.1-1250. Retaliation: § 55.1-1258 |
14-day pay-or-quit written notice: the landlord may terminate only if the tenant 'fails to pay rent within 14 days after written notice' of the nonpayment and of the intent to terminate (§ 55.1-1245(F)). Calendar days; paying within the 14 days stops the termination. Currency flag: the 14-day period is a COVID-era extension scheduled to revert to 5 days effective the later of July 1, 2028 or seven years after the COVID-19 emergency expired (later version of § 55.1-1245) |
For a remediable breach (or a § 55.1-1227 violation materially affecting health and safety), a written notice specifying the breach and stating the agreement 'will terminate upon a date not less than 30 days after receipt of the notice if the breach is not remedied in 21 days' — the '21/30' notice (§ 55.1-1245(A)-(B)). Curing within the 21 days stops the termination |
A non-remediable breach gets a 30-day written notice with no cure (§ 55.1-1245(C)). But a criminal or willful act that is not remediable and poses a threat to health or safety — expressly including 'any illegal drug activity' — lets the landlord 'terminate the rental agreement immediately and proceed to obtain possession,' with an expedited hearing within 15 days (§ 55.1-1245(C)). An intentional repeat of a previously-cured breach 'of a like nature' also draws a 30-day non-curable notice (§ 55.1-1245(E)) |
30 days' written notice to end a month-to-month tenancy (7 days for week-to-week), given that long before the next rent due date, unless the lease sets a different month-to-month period (§ 55.1-1253(A)). A large multifamily owner that declines to renew 20+ (or 50% of) month-to-month tenancies within 30 days must give 60 days' notice (§ 55.1-1253(B)) |
No statewide just-cause requirement; a landlord may end a month-to-month tenancy for any reason on 30 days' notice (§ 55.1-1253). Local rules are outside this survey's state-law scope |
Notice to the tenant is served 'at the tenant's last known place of residence, which may be the dwelling unit' (§ 55.1-1202(B)); electronic delivery is allowed only if the rental agreement provides for it and the tenant has not elected paper, with proof of delivery retained (§ 55.1-1202(A)). A breach notice must specify 'the acts and omissions constituting the breach,' and a nonpayment notice must state the nonpayment and the landlord's intent to terminate (§ 55.1-1245) |
Strong pay-and-stay redemption: the tenant may stop a nonpayment case by paying (or presenting a local-government/nonprofit 'redemption tender' for) all rent due plus late charges, attorney fees, and court costs at or before the first court return date (§ 55.1-1250(B)), and may still cancel a scheduled eviction by paying all amounts owed up to 48 hours before it (§ 55.1-1250(D)); a small landlord (four or fewer units) may limit this to once per lease period with written notice (§ 55.1-1250(A)). Retaliation is a defense: a landlord may not bring or threaten an eviction after learning the tenant complained to a housing-code agency, sued or complained about a VRLTA violation, organized a tenants' group, or testified against the landlord (§ 55.1-1258), though the tenant bears the burden of proving retaliatory intent |
| Washington verified 2026-07-10 | Washington Residential Landlord-Tenant Act, RCW ch. 59.18, with the unlawful-detainer notice statutes in ch. 59.12. Statewide just-cause rule and its enumerated causes and notice periods: RCW 59.18.650. The 14-day pay-or-vacate notice and its mandatory form: RCW 59.12.030(3), 59.18.057. Service of notices: RCW 59.12.040. Retaliation: RCW 59.18.240, .250 |
14-day pay-or-vacate written notice, in the mandatory statutory form (RCW 59.18.057; RCW 59.18.650(2)(a)). Calendar days; paying the total amount due within the 14 days — by cash, cashier's check, money order, or other certified funds — stops the eviction, and any payment is applied first to the amount on the notice. Add 5 days if the notice was served by mail (RCW 59.12.040) |
10-day comply-or-vacate notice for a curable material breach: the landlord serves written notice 'specifying the acts or omissions constituting the breach and requiring, in the alternative, that the breach be remedied or the rental agreement will end,' with a cure date 'at least 10 days after service of the notice' (RCW 59.18.650(2)(b)). Remedying the breach by that date stops the termination |
3-day notice to quit, no cure, for a tenant who 'commits or permits waste or nuisance upon the premises, unlawful activity that affects the use and enjoyment of the premises, or other substantial or repeated and unreasonable interference with the use and enjoyment of the premises by the landlord or neighbors' (RCW 59.18.650(2)(c)) |
Barred — Washington requires cause to end any tenancy, including month-to-month (RCW 59.18.650(1)). The no-fault causes still take long notice: 90 days for owner or immediate-family move-in ((2)(d)) or to sell a single-family home ((2)(e)); 60 days for a legitimate economic or business 'other good cause' ((2)(m)); 20 days where the owner shares a kitchen or bathroom with the tenant ((2)(i)). A fixed-term lease of 6–12 months can be ended without cause only at the end of its initial term, on 60 days' notice (RCW 59.18.650(1)(b)) |
Yes — statewide since 2021. A landlord 'may not evict a tenant, refuse to continue a tenancy, or end a periodic tenancy except for the causes enumerated' in RCW 59.18.650(2) — 16 causes, each with its own notice period. Ending a tenancy in violation makes the landlord liable for wrongful eviction: the greater of the tenant's damages or 'three times the monthly rent,' plus fees and costs (RCW 59.18.650(4)) |
Under RCW 59.12.040: personal delivery; or, if the tenant is absent, leaving a copy with a person of suitable age and discretion at the home and mailing a copy; or, if no one can be found, posting the notice conspicuously on the premises and mailing a copy. Five extra days are added when a notice is served by mail. A 2026 amendment (Laws of 2026, HB 2664, effective June 11, 2026) dropped the earlier certified-mail requirement, so ordinary first-class mail now suffices. A just-cause termination notice must 'identify the facts and circumstances' supporting the cause 'with enough specificity' for the tenant to prepare a defense (RCW 59.18.650(6)) |
Cure within the notice period: paying all amounts due within the 14-day nonpayment notice, or remedying the breach within the 10-day notice, stops the eviction (RCW 59.18.057; RCW 59.18.650(2)(b)). Retaliation is barred — while the tenant is in compliance, a landlord 'shall not take or threaten to take reprisals or retaliatory action,' including eviction, for a good-faith code complaint to a government authority or for asserting rights under the Act (RCW 59.18.240). An eviction begun within 90 days of such a protected act is rebuttably presumed retaliatory, but the presumption flips to the landlord if the tenant was in arrears or in breach when the notice was given (RCW 59.18.250) |
| West Virginia verified 2026-07-10 | West Virginia runs residential evictions through a summary court procedure, not a pre-suit notice regime: the wrongful-occupation article, W. Va. Code ch. 55, art. 3A (petition and grounds § 55-3A-1; hearing and judgment § 55-3A-3). Advance notice to END a periodic tenancy without cause is a separate statute, W. Va. Code § 37-6-5 (ch. 37, art. 6). West Virginia is NOT a URLTA state and has no residential landlord-tenant code setting pay-or-quit or cure notice periods. No statewide just cause |
No statutory pre-suit notice. West Virginia requires no 3-, 5-, or 7-day pay-or-quit notice for unpaid rent; the landlord files a verified petition alleging the tenant 'is in arrears in the payment of rent' (§ 55-3A-1(a)(3)), and the petition plus a notice of hearing — set 5 to 10 judicial days after filing (§ 55-3A-1(b)) — is what puts the tenant on notice. Any pay-or-quit period a tenant gets comes from the lease, not the statute |
No statutory pre-suit cure notice. A breach 'of a warranty or a leasehold covenant' is a wrongful-occupation ground pleaded directly in the § 55-3A-1 petition (§ 55-3A-1(a)(3)); the statute sets no cure period and no cure-or-quit notice. Whether the tenant gets a chance to cure, and any warning period, depends on the lease |
West Virginia's statute draws no curable-vs-unconditional line: deliberate or negligent damage to the property (or knowingly letting someone else do it), like every other for-cause ground, is pleaded straight into the § 55-3A-1 petition (§ 55-3A-1(a)(3)) with no separate notice and no statutory cure step. There is no distinct short 'unconditional quit' notice because there is no statutory pre-suit notice for cause at all |
This is the one place advance notice is required. Ending a periodic tenancy without cause runs through § 37-6-5: a year-to-year tenancy takes 'at least three months' notice prior to the end of any year'; a periodic tenancy of less than a year (e.g., month-to-month) takes 'notice for one full period before the end of any period' — so a month-to-month needs one full month, ending at a rental-period boundary. It does not apply where the lease fixes a different notice, requires none, or the term ends at a set time |
No. West Virginia has no statewide just-cause requirement; a periodic tenancy may be ended for any lawful reason on the § 37-6-5 notice. Local ordinances are outside this state-law survey |
Two separate rules. A § 37-6-5 termination notice 'may be served upon [the tenant] or upon anyone holding under him the leased premises' — the statute provides no posting method (a 2026 bill, HB 4570, that would have added one died in the Legislature). The § 55-3A-1 notice of the court hearing must be served 'in accordance with the provisions of Rule 4 of the West Virginia Rules of Civil Procedure or by certified mail, return receipt requested' (§ 55-3A-1(c)) |
West Virginia gives no statutory pay-and-stay or cure right in these sections — paying the arrears is not a statutory bar to the wrongful-occupation petition the way it is in pay-or-quit states, though in practice it can resolve the case. The tenant's statutory protection is procedural: the hearing notice must tell the tenant that 'any written defense to the petition may be filed and served upon the petitioner within five days of the receipt' of the notice (§ 55-3A-1(c)), and § 55-3A-2 preserves defenses available in ejectment or unlawful detainer. These sections contain no retaliation bar; West Virginia's implied warranty of habitability and retaliatory-eviction defense come from case law, not this statute. A landlord may not use self-help; only a court order and the sheriff can remove a tenant |
| Wisconsin verified 2026-07-10 | Wis. Stat. ch. 704 (Landlord and Tenant) — notice terminating for nonpayment/breach § 704.17; no-fault periodic-tenancy termination § 704.19; manner of giving notice § 704.21; retaliation § 704.45. The eviction suit itself runs under ch. 799 (small claims). Not a URLTA state |
5 days to pay or vacate, curable by paying (§ 704.17(1p)(a) month-to-month; § 704.17(2)(a) leases of a year or less); 'rent' includes past-due late fees (§ 704.17(1g)). The landlord may instead skip the cure right: a month-to-month tenant in default may be given a 14-day notice to vacate with no cure, and a second nonpayment default within one year lets the landlord use a 14-day no-cure notice |
5 days to remedy or vacate for waste or a non-rent lease breach (§ 704.17(1p)(b), (2)(b)); the tenant is 'deemed to be complying' by promptly taking reasonable steps with reasonable diligence, or by a bona-fide offer to pay all damages. A repeat breach within one year → 14-day notice to vacate, no cure |
5 days to vacate, no cure, when the landlord receives written notice from law enforcement or the district attorney that a nuisance (e.g. drug or gang activity under § 823.113) exists in or was caused by the tenant (§ 704.17(1p)(c), (2)(c)); the tenant may contest it in the eviction case. A repeat waste/lease breach within one year likewise gets a 14-day no-cure notice |
Month-to-month: at least 28 days' written notice, effective only at the end of a rental period (§ 704.19(3), (2)(b)); a week-to-week or other tenancy with rent payable more often than monthly needs notice at least equal to the rent-paying period |
No statewide just-cause requirement; a periodic tenancy may be ended for no reason on 28 days' notice under § 704.19 |
Personal delivery; leaving a copy at the tenant's home with a competent family member 14+ who is told its contents; leaving it with a competent person in charge of the premises plus mailing; posting conspicuously plus mailing if those fail after reasonable diligence; registered or certified mail to the last-known address; or service like a summons (§ 704.21(1)). The notice must be written and substantially inform the tenant of the intent to terminate and the termination date (§ 704.19(4)) |
Pay within the 5-day period to stop a nonpayment termination — unless the landlord elected a 14-day no-cure notice (month-to-month in default, or a repeat default). For a breach, cure by promptly taking reasonable remedial steps with diligence or offering to pay all damages. Retaliatory eviction barred (§ 704.45): no possession action brought 'but for' the tenant's good-faith code complaint or exercise of a tenancy right — though the landlord may still evict for genuinely unpaid rent (§ 704.45(2)) |
| Wyoming verified 2026-07-11 | Wyoming has no URLTA and a deliberately thin scheme. Evictions run through the Forcible Entry and Detainer (FED) article, W.S. §§ 1-21-1001 to 1-21-1017 — § 1-21-1002 lists when the action is allowed and § 1-21-1003 sets the one required pre-suit notice. Basic habitability duties are in the separate Residential Rental Property Act, W.S. §§ 1-21-1201 to 1-21-1211 (owner duties in § 1-21-1203, renter duties in § 1-21-1205) |
A uniform 3-day notice to quit — not a pay-or-quit. Nonpayment becomes a ground only 'after a failure to pay rent for three (3) days after it is due' (§ 1-21-1002(a)(i)); then the landlord must serve a written notice to quit 'at least three (3) days before commencing the action' (§ 1-21-1003). Wyoming provides no statutory right to reinstate by paying — the notice directs the tenant to leave, and whether to accept late rent is the landlord's choice. Calendar days |
The same 3-day notice to quit. A renter 'in violation of any terms imposed under W.S. 1-21-1204 or 1-21-1205' — e.g., damaging the unit, interfering with others' peaceful enjoyment, or unreasonably denying the owner access (§ 1-21-1205) — is a ground under § 1-21-1002(a)(vi), which still requires only the uniform written notice to quit served at least 3 days before filing (§ 1-21-1003). There is no separate statutory cure period |
Wyoming has no separate unconditional-quit track — and in effect every notice is one. The § 1-21-1003 notice to quit is a demand to leave, not a chance to cure, and it is the same 3 days whether the ground is nonpayment, holdover, or a lease violation, including waste, nuisance, or illegal use. The statute draws no faster or slower track for serious conduct |
No statutory notice period. Wyoming sets no month-to-month or no-cause termination period by statute — how much notice ends a periodic tenancy is governed by the lease and common law (commonly a month, but not a statutory rule). Whatever ends the tenancy, the landlord must still serve the 3-day notice to quit before filing an FED action (§ 1-21-1003) |
No. Wyoming has no statewide just-cause requirement and no statutory no-cause notice period at all — the state leaves periodic-tenancy termination to the lease and common law, subject only to the pre-suit 3-day notice to quit (§ 1-21-1003) |
Written notice only, served 'at least three (3) days before commencing the action, by leaving a written copy with the defendant or at his usual place of abode or business if he cannot be found' (§ 1-21-1003). Oral notice does not satisfy the statute, which does not authorize mail or door-posting for the notice to quit itself. After the 3 days, the FED summons must be served 'not less than three (3) nor more than twelve (12) days before the day of trial' (§ 1-21-1004) |
Little statutory footing: no pay-or-cure reinstatement right and no state anti-retaliation statute. What exists is the owner's habitability duty — the unit must be 'reasonably safe, sanitary and fit for human occupancy,' with working electrical, plumbing, heating, and water (§ 1-21-1203(a)) — enforceable by a renter who is 'current on all payments' and gives written notice of the defect (§ 1-21-1203(b)); if the owner elects not to repair, it must give the renter 10 to 20 days to find substitute housing (§ 1-21-1203(d)). A landlord must still use the FED court process (§ 1-21-1001 et seq.), never self-help |
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