License plate mounting — Mississippi Permit Test
License plate mounting on the Mississippi permit test — 4 rules, each with the reason behind it and a question on it while it is fresh.
The rules
In Mississippi you must buy your license plate (tag) in the county where you live.
The tag is tied to your home county, so buying it somewhere else leaves your car wrongly registered.
You must purchase your license plate/tag in the county where you live.
Mississippi law requires your license plate to be mounted on the rear of your vehicle.
Police reading plates from behind cannot find a car whose tag is missing from the back.
You are required by law to mount your Mississippi license plate (tag) on the rear of your vehicle.
Trailer hitches, tag emblems and other decorations must not hide any part of any letter or number on your plate.
A plate that is partly covered cannot be read after a crash, a theft or a hit-and-run.
Trailer hitches, tag emblems, or any other decoration must not obscure any part of any letter, numeral, or any combination of letter/numeral on your plate (tag).
You must have a tag light that makes your license plate readable at 60 feet at night.
An unlit plate is unreadable in the dark, so a driver who flees a crash at night cannot be traced.
You must also have a tag light which makes the letter, numeral or any combinations of letter/numerals on your license plate (tag) visible at sixty feet at night.
On the test
Where must you buy your Mississippi license plate?
In the county where you live. The tag is tied to your home county, so buying it somewhere else leaves your car wrongly registered. Mississippi Driver's License Manual, p.75: “You must purchase your license plate/tag in the county where you live.”
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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)