Mississippi license plate: Standard 2024
Issued today 2024 to today. Standard plates for car, van, and truck, issued by Mississippi Department of Revenue, Motor Vehicle Services (Vehicle Licensing Division). One of 5 Mississippi license plates.
Format, years and the law
- Format
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LLL 999, for exampleNXN 774(L is any letter, 9 any digit)The format above follows the issuing rules: a registration that fits it is one this series could have issued.
- Years issued
- 2024 to today. Still issued.
- Vehicle class
- Standard: the default series issued to private road vehicles. Issued for car, van, and truck.
- Colours
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Characters
#00205BBackground#FFFFFF - Size
- 12 × 6 in (305 × 152 mm) · every country's size
- About this plate
- MISSISSIPPI STANDARD ISSUE, 2024-2029 SERIES. THE PERIOD IS THE STRONGEST CLAIM IN THIS ENTRY, which inverts the usual shape of a US plate record and is the reason Mississippi is worth having early: the issuing agency names the window on its own page, and the statute behind the window is quoted by that same agency. Compare Alabama in this group, where the design is superbly sourced and the date is a collector's note. WHAT IS DELIBERATELY NOT CLAIMED: a serial-width cap (none found), a colour specification (none found), a display rule (none found), and a county decode (the block table is real but incomplete and period-dependent). Four honest gaps beat one invented fact.
- Separators
- A SEPARATOR THAT IS NOT A CHARACTER, and the reason this entry is worth reading twice. On the 2024 base the gap between the letter group and the numeral group is occupied by a screened MAGNOLIA BLOSSOM on a blue circle, the emblem IS the separator. Tennessee in this same group does the same thing with a flag emblem; two states, one modelling rule.
- Replacement
- years: 5. statutory text: § 27-19-31(1), quoted verbatim by the Mississippi Department of Revenue on its own plate page: "The Department of Revenue is authorized and directed to establish and maintain a vehicle registration renewal system whereby the license tag attached upon a motor vehicle or trailer may be issued for five (5) years with the approval of the License Tag Commission, except for motor vehicles registered in excess of ten thousand (10,000) pounds gross vehicle weight, and motor vehicles in a fleet registered, apportioned vehicles, rental and commercial trailers and buses, which shall be issued for a period of time determined by the Department of Revenue.". note: FIVE YEARS IS SHORTER THAN AAMVA'S ENTIRE RECOMMENDED RANGE, which runs 7 to 10. Florida legislated the top of the range at 10; Mississippi legislated below the bottom of it. Note also the third actor in that sentence, a LICENSE TAG COMMISSION whose approval the cycle requires.
Legal basis and sources
- Mississippi DOR: the '2024-2029 Series' label on the Standard Passenger Vehicle License Plate; the verbatim quotation of Miss. Code Ann. § 27-19-31(1) and its five-year tag, License Tag Commission approval and... https://www.dor.ms.gov/motor-vehicle/available-license-plates
- AAMVA Ed.3 §1.1, the 7-to-10-year range Mississippi's legislated five years sits below https://www.aamva.org/getmedia/646bcc8a-219b-47d8-b5cd-726240473163/License-Plate-Standard-Edition-3_September-2025-U...
- en.wikipedia.org https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_Mississippi
Before and after
This plate in your app
The series id is us-ms-standard-2024. 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-standard-2024")'
- Plate image (SVG, sample serial): https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/us-ms/us-ms-standard-2024.svg
- Blank template, filled on your side: https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/us-ms/us-ms-standard-2024/template.svg
