A landlord is legally allowed to evict a tenant with a current lease for nonpayment of rent or other lease violations. An eviction notice must be given, and a tenant must be allowed time to correct the voilation or pay the owed rent. Eviction rules are slightly different for those residing in a property with no lease or under a month to month rental agreement, which is also called a periodic tenancy. Eviction law states that in the case of periodic tenancy, a landlord may at any time choose to terminate the tenancy, as long as proper notice is given. What constitutes proper notice may vary depending on local laws, but generally proper notice is a full rental period, meaning the full period between when rent payments are due. In the case of a periodic tenancy, eviction rules do not require the landlord to give a reason other than the desire to terminate the tenancy. A tenant in a periodic tenancy agreement must then leave the property before the next rental period or a landlord may pursue court action to have the tenant evicted and removed from the premises.