Ineligible persons — Mississippi Permit Test
Ineligible persons on the Mississippi permit test — 4 rules, each with the reason behind it and a question on it while it is fresh.
The rules
Mississippi cannot issue you a license while your license is revoked or suspended.
A suspension means the state has taken away your right to drive, so a new card would undo it.
Your license has been revoked or suspended.
Mississippi cannot license a person who is habitually intoxicated or addicted to narcotics.
A driver who is often drunk or high cannot judge speed or react in time, and others pay for it.
You are habitually intoxicated or are addicted to the use of narcotics.
Mississippi cannot license a person with a physical or mental condition incompatible with safe driving, or one who has been adjudged insane.
Some health problems make it unsafe to control a car, no matter how much a person wants to drive.
You have a physical or mental condition incompatible with safe driving.
If you are under 17, you cannot be licensed until a parent, teacher or guardian certifies by affidavit that they watched you drive for at least 50 hours.
Hours at the wheel with a grown-up watching build the habits a short test cannot show.
You have not provided an affidavit whereby a parent, teacher, or guardian has certified that he or she has witnessed you operate a motor vehicle for at least fifty hours.
On the test
Can Mississippi issue you a license while your license is suspended?
No, the law prevents it being issued. A suspension means the state has taken away your right to drive, so a new card would undo it. Mississippi Driver's License Manual, p.10: “Your license has been revoked or suspended.”
How this works
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Where these come from
Every rule here is checked against Mississippi Driver's License Manual, published by the Mississippi Department of Public Safety, and against the state code itself. Last checked 2026-10-04.
- src/assets/drivers-manuals/MS.pdf (Mississippi Driver's License Manual, Revised December 2024, Mississippi Department of Public Safety, Driver Service Bureau, retrieved 2026-10-04; sha256 pinned in SOURCES.json)
- src/assets/drivers-manuals/MS.pages.txt (the plain pdftotext fixture every citation here was cut from and verified against; sha256 pinned in SOURCES.json)
- src/assets/drivers-manuals/MS-exam.html (31 Miss. Code. R. 1-2.3 as reproduced by the Legal Information Institute, retrieved 2026-10-04; sha256 pinned in SOURCES.json under examSource)
- https://www.driverservicebureau.dps.ms.gov/Drivers/Learners_Permit (read 2026-10-04; links the manual, states no count or mark)
- https://www.sos.ms.gov/adminsearch/ACCode/00000383c.pdf (Title 31 Part 1, Driver Services Administrative Code; Rule 2.3 item 9: "A grade of 80% will be required on any and all tests issued for a Temporary Permit.")
- https://www.sos.ms.gov/adminsearch/ACProposed/00013644b.pdf (the 2006 filing whose "30 question" sentence the 2013 and 2014 re-filings struck; not used)