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Eviction Notice Periods by State: Unpaid Rent, Lease Violations and No-Cause Endings
Learn the period your state sets for each ground: unpaid rent can run from 3 to 14 days in the main period, a lease violation usually carries a cure period, and a no-cause ending is limited in the 7 just-cause jurisdictions. Then choose your state in the free tool below and add the ground and the date served to see when the period ends.
Written for the landlord serving the notice. If you are a tenant, you are counting the same days under the same statute.
Quick answer
For unpaid rent the main notice period can run from 3 days in 16 states to 14 days in 7 (Massachusetts, Minnesota, New York, Tennessee, Vermont, Virginia and Washington), with longer periods in Hawaii when the tenant schedules mediation and in Wisconsin for a lease of more than a year, and Missouri, New Jersey, South Dakota and West Virginia set no fixed period. A lease violation usually carries a longer notice with a chance to cure, such as 10 days in Arizona and Alaska, 14 days in Kansas, Montana and South Carolina, and 30 days in the District of Columbia, Maryland, New Hampshire, Oregon and Vermont. Ending a month-to-month tenancy without a stated cause takes 30 days in most states that allow it, from a 3-day notice to quit in Connecticut and 7 days in North Carolina to 90 days for long tenancies in New York and Vermont, and is limited or barred in the 7 just-cause jurisdictions. Each period was checked on October 14, 2026 against the source cited for it.
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Choose your state, a ground and the day the notice was served to learn the recorded notice period, your earliest filing date where the cell allows a count, the court, the answer or hearing timing, the filing fee and the just-cause rule.
Which notice applies: unpaid rent, a violation or no cause?
They are separate clocks: a notice served on the wrong ground does not start the right one.
Unpaid rent
A demand to pay or leave. Most statutes let the tenant end it by paying in full before it expires.
Lease violation
A notice naming the breach. Many states give a cure period first and a faster, no-cure notice for a repeat breach or for serious conduct.
No cause (end of a month-to-month tenancy)
Notice that a periodic tenancy will end on a set date, with no reason required where the state allows it. Just-cause states limit or bar this ending.
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Learn what a rent notice must say, how you deliver it and when you may serve it, by state.
Several statutes set conditions beyond the day count. A California 3-day notice to pay rent or quit may demand only rent, not late fees, utilities or damages, and the 3 days skip Saturdays, Sundays and court holidays. In the District of Columbia the notice of intent to file goes by certified or tracked mail and by hand delivery or posting, and no case may be filed if the unpaid rent is under $600 (D.C. Code 42-3505.01). Minnesota's 14-day notice must itemize the amount due, and a case filed without it is dismissed (Minn. Stat. 504B.321). Idaho's 3-day notice must also warn that a residential tenant gets 72 hours after judgment to remove belongings (Idaho Code 6-303).
Others set when the notice may be served. Connecticut's 3-day notice to quit comes after a 9-day grace period for monthly rent, 4 days for weekly (C.G.S. 47a-15a). Maine's 7-day notice may be served once rent is 7 or more days in arrears (14 M.R.S. 6002). Rhode Island's 5-day demand is mailed once rent is 15 days in arrears, so the case is filed no earlier than day 6 (R.I. Gen. Laws 34-18-35). Oregon gives 10 days for a notice served on or after day 8 of the rental period, or 13 days for one served on or after day 5 (ORS 90.394).
Learn each state's cure period for a breach and the faster notice for a repeat.
Where the statute gives a cure period, a tenant who fixes the named breach keeps the tenancy. Florida gives 7 days to cure a curable breach, and 7 days to vacate with no cure for an incurable breach or a repeat within 12 months (Fla. Stat. 83.56). Alaska gives 10 days to remedy or quit, then 5 days with no cure for a repeat within 6 months (AS 34.03.220). Washington gives 10 days after service to perform or surrender (RCW 59.12.030). Virginia gives 21 days to cure, with termination not less than 30 days after receipt, and 30 days for a breach that cannot be remedied (Va. Code 55.1-1245). Rhode Island gives 20 days to remedy from mailing (R.I. Gen. Laws 34-18-36).
Other states set a notice to quit with no statutory cure. Illinois gives 10 days (735 ILCS 5/9-210); Missouri gives 10 days to vacate (RSMo 441.040); Texas gives 3 days to vacate unless the lease sets a different period (Tex. Prop. Code 24.005); Pennsylvania gives 15 days for a lease of a year or less and 30 days for a longer one. West Virginia's summary relief statute states no pre-filing notice for a breach, and North Carolina requires a forfeiture clause in the lease and a demand for surrender rather than a fixed period (G.S. 42-26).
Ohio adds a 30-day notice to remedy a health and safety breach before the 3-day notice to leave (R.C. 5321.11), and Connecticut a 15-day notice of noncompliance before its notice to quit when the breach can be fixed (C.G.S. 47a-15).
Learn the notice that ends a month-to-month tenancy, and where just cause limits it.
Thirty days is the common figure, set by Alabama, Arizona, Florida, Iowa, Kansas, Ohio and Oklahoma among others, most of them counted to a periodic rental date. Delaware and Maryland set 60 days (25 Del. C. 5106; Real Prop. 8-402). Hawaii's agency handbook gives 45 days. Some states scale with the length of the tenancy: California 30 days under one year and 60 days after; New York 30, 60 or 90 days for under one year, one to two years, and two years or more (Real Property Law 226-c); Vermont 60 days for two years or less and 90 days after, where there is no written agreement (9 V.S.A. 4467).
A few are shorter. Connecticut lists lapse of time as a ground for its notice to quit, served at least 3 days before the termination date (C.G.S. 47a-23). North Carolina sets 7 days for a month-to-month tenancy (G.S. 42-14), Utah 15 calendar days before the end of the rental period (Utah Code 78B-6-802), Pennsylvania 15 days for a term of a year or less, and Wisconsin 28 days, effective only at the end of a rental period (Wis. Stat. 704.19).
In the 7 just-cause jurisdictions this ending is limited or unavailable: the District of Columbia permits eviction of a paying tenant only on a listed statutory ground, Washington requires one of the causes in RCW 59.18.650, Oregon allows a 30-day no-cause notice only in the first year of occupancy (ORS 90.427), and Colorado bars it for covered premises after 12 months, with at least 90 days' notice for no-fault grounds such as owner move-in.
Learn the names eight states give their notices, from pay or quit to cure or vacate.
Notice names as the statute or court page states them, for eight states.
State
Notices named in the statute or court page
California
3-day notice to pay rent or quit; 3-day notice to perform covenants or quit; 3-day notice to quit; 30-day or 60-day notice to quit; 90-day notice to quit (Section 8); 30-day notice to vacate (CARES Act)
Florida
3-day notice (demand for payment of rent or possession); 7-day notice to cure noncompliance; 7-day notice of termination (incurable noncompliance); 30-day notice to terminate month-to-month tenancy
Illinois
Notice of Termination for Non-Payment of Rent; Notice of Termination for Lease Violation; Notice of Non-Renewal of Lease or Termination of Tenancy; Demand for Immediate Possession (statewide approved forms)
New York
14-day rent demand (must include the RPL 231-c notice); notice of non-renewal or termination (RPL 226-c)
Ohio
3-day notice to leave the premises (must carry the statutory warning text, R.C. 1923.04); 30-day notice to remedy; 30-day notice to end a month-to-month tenancy
Texas
Notice to vacate; notice to pay rent or vacate
Washington
14-day notice to pay rent or vacate the premises (statutory form); 10-day notice to comply or vacate
Wisconsin
5-day notice to pay rent or vacate; 14-day notice to vacate; 5-day notice to remedy or vacate; 30-day notice (leases over one year); 28-day notice terminating a periodic tenancy
Frequently Asked Questions
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It can run from 3 days in 16 states to 14 days in Massachusetts, Minnesota, New York, Tennessee, Vermont, Virginia and Washington for each state's main period; Hawaii can reach 20 days when the tenant schedules mediation, and Wisconsin requires 30 days for a lease of more than a year. The common middle values are 5, 7 and 10 days. Missouri, New Jersey, South Dakota and West Virginia set no fixed pre-filing period, and Alabama, California, Florida, Georgia, Nevada and Utah count only business, judicial or court days.
The California name, used in similar form elsewhere, for the notice served before filing for unpaid rent: 3 days, not counting weekends or court holidays, to pay the rent or move, and it may demand only rent. Idaho, Iowa, Montana and Utah, among others, also use 3 days.
Thirty days in most states that allow a no-cause ending. Delaware and Maryland set 60; California, New York and Vermont scale with the length of the tenancy, up to 90; Wisconsin sets 28, Utah 15, North Carolina 7, and Connecticut a 3-day notice to quit.
Not everywhere. The District of Columbia and Washington require a statutory cause, Oregon allows a no-cause notice only during the first year, Colorado bars it for covered premises after 12 months, California's Tenant Protection Act usually requires a just cause after 12 months, and New Hampshire allows it only for nonrestricted property.
A notice that names a lease violation and gives the tenant a set time to fix it before the tenancy ends, from 7 days in Florida to 21 in Virginia. Florida, Alaska, Montana and Nebraska, among others, set a no-cure notice for a repeat of the same breach within 6 or 12 months.
Most cells in the dataset describe a written notice. North Carolina accepts a written or oral demand for past-due rent, with 10 days to pay (G.S. 42-3), and Vermont's statute speaks of actual notice. Several states prescribe a form or required wording, such as Illinois' statewide approved forms and Rhode Island's statutory forms in 34-18-56.
No. The notice only starts the clock. A tenant who stays after it expires can be removed only after a court judgment and a writ carried out by an officer; every one of the 37 self-help cells researched records removal outside the court process as prohibited.
Some figures changed after those tables were dated: Virginia now gives 14 days for unpaid rent (Va. Code 55.1-1245), Hawaii 10 calendar days during its 2026 to 2028 pilot, and Oregon 10 or 13 days (ORS 90.394); Nevada's 7 judicial days are the residential period, 5 days the commercial one.
Information on this page reflects laws and published figures as of October 14, 2026. This is general information, not legal advice, and not a prediction for any matter. Rules and fees change; check the court or agency page linked for each figure.
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