Mississippi
License Plate Lookup

What a Mississippi plate lookup can reveal

Mississippi vehicle history covers DMV records, title information, accident reports, and safety recalls.

Mississippi license plates: format and rules

Standard passenger plates follow the ABC 1234 format. Mississippi requires annual safety inspections in designated counties.

Mississippi title, plate and registration rules

What the law requires when a vehicle changes hands in Mississippi. Fees and exact deadlines are set by the Mississippi DOR and can change, so check the official pages linked below before you file anything.

Title transfer

The buyer applies for a title and registers the vehicle at the county tax collector's office in the county where the vehicle is domiciled or parked overnight, and must do so within 30 business days of the purchase date before penalties begin.

Plates on a sale

Plates follow the owner in Mississippi — the tag is registered to both the vehicle and the owner, and the previous owner must remove it once the title is assigned and the vehicle is handed over.

Registration renewal

Motor vehicle registration must be renewed every year through the county tax collector's office.

Worth knowing

A Mississippi tag cannot be moved to a different vehicle. When either the vehicle or the owner changes, the old tag must be surrendered to the county tax collector, who can issue a credit slip for the time remaining on it. A temporary drive-out tag valid for seven days from the date of purchase is available.

Sources: Mississippi DOR — Motor Vehicle Frequently Asked Questions, Mississippi DOR — Motor Vehicle Registration and Renewal. Verified 2026-09-15.

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What the law protects

The federal Driver’s Privacy Protection Act, at 18 U.S.C. § 2721, bars state motor vehicle departments from releasing personal information out of their records. That covers the registrant’s name, address, telephone number, driver identification number and Social Security number. Photographs, medical and disability information are treated as highly restricted and cannot be released at all without the person’s express consent.

When owner information can legally be released

The statute sets out fourteen permitted uses. The ones an ordinary person might qualify for are:

• Asking the Mississippi DOR for a copy of your own record.
• A civil, criminal or administrative proceeding, including service of process.
• An insurance claim, underwriting decision or anti-fraud investigation.
• Notifying an owner that their vehicle has been towed or impounded.
• A licensed private investigator acting for one of the permitted purposes above.
• Any purpose at all, where the individual has given written consent.

Outside that list the answer is no, whoever is asking and whatever the reason. If you need to reach an owner over a genuine dispute, the route is a police report, an insurance claim or a court, not a lookup site.

What you get from us instead

A Mississippi plate lookup resolves the plate to the vehicle’s VIN, then reports on the vehicle itself: title brands, reported accidents, odometer readings, open recalls, lien records, auction and sales history, and how many owners it has had. That is what tells you whether a car is worth buying. The registrant’s identity would not, and is not something we hold.

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