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Fifteen Days’ Notice on Orders — But Only on a Periodic Tenancy

Where a tenant is in the military service of the United States and the termination is necessitated by military orders, not more than fifteen days’ written notice by the tenant is needed to end a tenancy at will or a tenancy from one period to another of three months or less, and the same fifteen days replaces the ordinary thirty on a month-to-month tenancy under the residential landlord and tenant act.

Verified August 23, 2026

What this benefit is

Where a tenant is in the military service of the United States and the termination is necessitated by military orders, not more than fifteen days’ written notice by the tenant is needed to end a tenancy at will or a tenancy from one period to another of three months or less, and the same fifteen days replaces the ordinary thirty on a month-to-month tenancy under the residential landlord and tenant act.

What it's worth: Fifteen days’ notice instead of thirty, on a periodic tenancy

  • The saving is at most one half-month of rent on a periodic tenancy, which is why the weight here is modest beside the lease-termination rights other jurisdictions confer.
  • Nothing in either section waives rent already owed, a security deposit deduction, or damage. It shortens notice and does nothing else.

Who is entitled to it

  • You serve or served, which is where the shortened notice starts.
  • You are in this state.

Not sure whether that describes you?

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How to claim it

Deadline: At least fifteen days before the termination date
  1. 1Put it in writing. Both sections speak of notice in writing by the tenant; an oral warning to a letting agent is not the notice the statute means.
  2. 2Say why. The shortened period applies where the termination of the tenancy is NECESSITATED BY MILITARY ORDERS, so the notice should say so and should travel with a copy of the orders even though neither section demands one in terms.
  3. 3Check what kind of tenancy you actually hold before relying on this. K.S.A. 58-2504 covers a tenancy at will or one from one period to another of three months or less; K.S.A. 58-2570(b) covers a month-to-month tenancy under the residential landlord and tenant act.
  4. 4Where rent is reserved payable at intervals of less than thirty days, K.S.A. 58-2504 already shortens ordinary notice to that interval — so on a weekly tenancy the military provision may add nothing.
  5. 5On a month-to-month tenancy the ordinary rule is that termination takes effect on a periodic rent-paying date not less than thirty days after the notice is received. The military provision replaces that thirty with fifteen; the rent-paying-date mechanic is unchanged.
  6. 6Watch what you sign on the way out. K.S.A. 58-2570(e) requires a landlord-supplied notice-to-vacate document containing terms not in the rental agreement to carry a boldface warning, and provides that without that warning your signature does not bind you to the extra terms.
  7. 7If you hold a fixed term of more than thirty days, this is not your route — see the correction below.
Form
Written notice of termination to the landlord
File with
Your landlord
No renewal
Once granted it does not need renewing.
CorrectionThese two sections are regularly listed as "Kansas lets a servicemember break a lease on orders". They do not. Both operate on PERIODIC tenancies, and K.S.A. 58-2570(b) says in terms that a rental agreement for a definite term of more than thirty days shall not be construed as a month-to-month tenancy even where rent is payable at thirty-day intervals. A twelve-month lease is outside both sections; the route there is the federal Servicemembers Civil Relief Act, not state law.
CorrectionThe tense matters. The words are "is in the military service of the United States" — present, at the time notice is given. A veteran who has already separated and is moving for a civilian job is not inside these sections at all, however recently they served.
Worth knowingThe provision is old and deliberate. The Revisor’s history on K.S.A. 58-2504 records the amendment as proposed by the military law section of the state bar association and enacted in 1967, which is why the wording sits inside a general notice statute rather than in a veterans chapter where people look for it.
Known gapNeither section says what proof of orders a landlord may demand, whether a spouse or dependant may give the notice, or how the security deposit is treated on a shortened notice. None of that was verified this session.

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