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Mississippi license plate: Specialty index

Issued today Documented since 2024. Specialty plates for car, van, truck, and motorcycle, issued by Mississippi Department of Revenue, Motor Vehicle Services (Vehicle Licensing Division). One of 5 Mississippi license plates.

Mississippi (United States) license plate, Specialty index (documented since 2024), sample 648283
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Format, years and the law

Format
999999, for example 648283 (9 any digit)

The format above is broad: a registration that fits it has the right shape, which does not show that this series issued it.

Years issued
Documented since 2024; the format is likely older than the first year documented. Still issued.
Vehicle class
Specialty: optional-design programs on standard serials (US state programs). Issued for car, van, truck, and motorcycle.
Size
12 × 6 in (305 × 152 mm) · every country's size
About this plate
THE MISSISSIPPI SPECIALTY INDEX, one entry standing for the program, per §2.5. It is the thinnest index in this group and the file says so plainly: no count, no program list, no sourced width. What it does carry that is worth keeping is the pointer to Mississippi's issuance-volume reporting. Florida's monthly active-plate report was called the most valuable structured artefact in the whole US pass precisely because issuing agencies publish volumes that nobody archives; Mississippi appears to have published the same kind of thing, and the only evidence obtained for it is twelve years old. Finding the current report is a higher-value follow-up than counting the programs.
About the format
A match is a shape hit and nothing more.

Legal basis and sources

  1. dor.ms.gov https://www.dor.ms.gov/motor-vehicle/available-license-plates/specialty-license-plates
  2. the official fee-distribution index, same shape https://www.dor.ms.gov/motor-vehicle/available-license-plates/special-tag-fee-distribution
  3. the NASCAR driver plate line as its own DOR category https://www.dor.ms.gov/motor-vehicle/mvs-available-tags/nascar-license-plates
  4. en.wikipedia.org https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_Mississippi

This plate in your app

The series id is us-ms-specialty-index. The API returns its format, validation, colours and designs with the rest of Mississippi's series:

curl -s https://vehiclesdb.com/api/v1/plates/us-ms \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $VEHICLESDB_API_KEY" \
  | jq '.series[] | select(.id == "us-ms-specialty-index")'
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