Arizona Tenant Duties and Landlord Remedies for Noncompliance

A.R.S. 33-1341 lists eight duties the tenant shall perform, from keeping the unit clean and safe to promptly notifying the landlord in writing when maintenance is needed. A.R.S. 33-1342 says when a landlord's rules and regulations are enforceable against the tenant. For tenant noncompliance, A.R.S. 33-1368 sets the notice tracks.

The Eight Tenant Duties

A.R.S. 33-1341 says the tenant shall:

1. Comply with all obligations primarily imposed upon tenants by applicable provisions of building codes materially affecting health and safety.
2. Keep the part of the premises he occupies and uses as clean and safe as the condition of the premises permits.
3. Dispose from his dwelling unit all ashes, rubbish, garbage and other waste in a clean and safe manner.
4. Keep all plumbing fixtures in the dwelling unit or used by the tenant as clean as their condition permits.
5. Use in a reasonable manner all electrical, plumbing, sanitary, heating, ventilating, air-conditioning and other facilities and appliances, including elevators, in the premises.
6. Not deliberately or negligently destroy, deface, damage, impair or remove any part of the premises, or knowingly permit any person to do so.
7. Conduct himself, and require other persons on the premises with his consent to conduct themselves, in a manner that will not disturb his neighbors' peaceful enjoyment of the premises.
8. Promptly notify the landlord in writing of any situation or occurrence that requires the landlord to provide maintenance or make repairs or otherwise requires the landlord to take action as prescribed in section 33-1324.

Landlord Rules and Regulations

A.R.S. 33-1342(A) allows a landlord, from time to time, to adopt rules or regulations concerning the tenant's use and occupancy of the premises. They are enforceable against the tenant only if all six of these hold:

1. Their purpose is to promote the convenience, safety or welfare of the tenants in the premises, preserve the landlord's property from abusive use, or make a fair distribution of services and facilities held out for the tenants generally.
2. They are reasonably related to the purpose for which adopted.
3. They apply to all tenants in the premises in a fair manner.
4. They are sufficiently explicit in prohibition, direction or limitation of the tenant's conduct to fairly inform the tenant of what the tenant must or must not do to comply.
5. They are not for the purpose of evading the obligations of the landlord.
6. The tenant has notice of them at the time the tenant enters into the rental agreement.

Because the text says “only if”, a rule that fails any one condition is not enforceable against the tenant. The text does not say that meeting all six settles every dispute about a rule.

Rules Adopted After the Rental Agreement

A.R.S. 33-1342(B) says a rule or regulation adopted after the tenant enters into the rental agreement is enforceable against the tenant if a thirty day notice of its adoption is given to the tenant and it does not constitute a substantial modification of the tenant's rental agreement. The statute does not define substantial modification or say how the notice must be given.

Changes in the Law

A.R.S. 33-1342(C) says that if state, county, municipal or other governmental bodies adopt new ordinances, rules or other legal provisions affecting existing rental agreements, the landlord may make immediate amendments to lease agreements to bring them into compliance with the law. The landlord shall give the tenant written notice that the lease has been amended, with a brief description of the amendment and the effective date.

Notice Tracks Under 33-1368

A.R.S. 33-1368(A) sets out separate tracks; do not merge them. Under subsection (G), “days” in that section means calendar days.

• Material noncompliance with the rental agreement: the landlord may deliver a written notice specifying the acts and omissions and stating that the rental agreement will terminate on a date not less than ten days after receipt if the breach is not remedied in ten days. The subsection also defines material falsification of the rental application and says some of it is not curable; read the text for which items.
• Noncompliance with 33-1341 materially affecting health and safety: the same kind of written notice, with termination on a date not less than five days after receipt if the breach is not remedied in five days. If the breach is remediable by repair or the payment of damages or otherwise, and the tenant adequately remedies it before the date in the notice, the rental agreement will not terminate.
• Additional act of the same or similar nature: if one occurs during the lease term after the previous remedy of noncompliance, the landlord may institute a special detainer action under 33-1377 ten days after delivery of a written notice advising the tenant that a second noncompliance of the same or a similar nature has occurred.
• Material and irreparable breach on the premises: the landlord may deliver a written notice for immediate termination and shall proceed under 33-1377. The statute's list of examples is not exhaustive and includes illegal discharge of a weapon, prostitution, criminal street gang activity, unlawful manufacturing, selling, transferring, possessing, using or storing of a controlled substance, threatening or intimidating, assault, and imminent or actual serious property damage.

Subsection (C) lets the landlord recover all reasonable damages resulting from the tenant's noncompliance with the rental agreement or 33-1341 or occupancy of the dwelling unit, court costs, reasonable attorney fees and all quantifiable damage caused by the tenant to the premises.

Whether a breach of a landlord rule is itself noncompliance with the rental agreement is not stated in these sections; an Arizona attorney can advise.

Do This

1. Put the tenant's 33-1341 duties and your rules in the written lease, each rule stating plainly what the tenant must or must not do.
2. Check each rule against the purposes in 33-1342(A)(1), and apply it to all tenants in the premises in a fair manner.
3. Make sure the tenant has notice of each rule when the tenant enters into the rental agreement.
4. For a rule adopted later, give thirty day notice and check that it is not a substantial modification of the rental agreement.
5. When a breach occurs, record the date, what happened and any evidence.
6. Choose the 33-1368(A) track that matches the breach, and count its days as calendar days.

Common Mistakes

• Adopting a rule that applies only to certain tenants, which fails the fair-manner condition.
• Writing a rule in vague language, such as be nice to neighbors, that does not tell the tenant what conduct is required or prohibited.
• Adopting a rule for the purpose of evading the landlord's own obligations.
• Enforcing a rule the tenant did not have notice of when entering into the rental agreement, or enforcing a later rule without thirty day notice.
• Treating the ten-day and five-day tracks as interchangeable; subsection (A) states each on its own terms.
• Starting a special detainer without the written notice that 33-1368 describes.

Checked against the text published on azleg.gov on 5 October 2026.

Sources

• A.R.S. 33-1341 — Arizona Legislature, Arizona Revised Statutes
• A.R.S. 33-1342 — Arizona Legislature, Arizona Revised Statutes
• A.R.S. 33-1368 — Arizona Legislature, Arizona Revised Statutes

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Informational only, not legal advice. Statute text checked against the Arizona Revised Statutes (Title 33, Chapter 10 and Title 12, Chapter 8, Article 4) as published at azleg.gov on October 5, 2026. Statutes change every legislative session and a court may read them differently than a summary does; for a dispute, an eviction or anything expensive to get wrong, talk to an Arizona landlord-tenant attorney.