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Mississippi Statutes, Title 63

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Title 63, Motor Vehicles and Traffic Regulations

24 chapters · 650 sections in this title.

All chapters in Title 63650 Ch 3, Traffic Regulations and Rules of the…138 Ch 1, Driver’s License85 Ch 17, Manufacture, Sales and Distribution71 Ch 21, Motor Vehicle Titles71 Ch 7, Equipment and Identification68 Ch 15, Motor Vehicle Safety — Responsibility33 Ch 19, Motor Vehicle Sales Finance Law31 Ch 5, Size, Weight and Load30 Ch 11, Implied Consent Law27 Ch 9, Traffic Violations Procedure18 Ch 29, Mississippi Vehicle Protection Produ…15 Ch 39, Peer-to-Peer Car Sharing Program Act14 Ch 35, Mississippi Fully Autonomous Vehicle…13 Ch 37, Nonconsensual Towing of Commercial V…8

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Miss. Code Ann. § 63-19-52 Administration of chapter; issuance of rules and regulations
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The commissioner shall have the power and authority to adopt, promulgate and issue such rules and regulations, not inconsistent with this article, or any other statute of the State of Mississippi, as he shall deem necessary for the purpose of the administration of this chapter. A…
Miss. Code Ann. § 63-19-53 Waiver of provisions of chapter
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Any waiver of the provisions of this chapter shall be unenforceable and void.
Miss. Code Ann. § 63-19-55 Penalties for violations of chapter
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(1) Any person who willfully and intentionally violates any provision of this chapter or engages in the business of a sales finance company in this state without a license therefor as provided in this chapter shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction, shall be punishe…
Miss. Code Ann. § 63-19-56 Commissioner authorized to examine persons suspected of conducting business requiring a license
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The commissioner, or his duly authorized representative, for the purpose of discovering violations of this chapter and for the purpose of determining whether persons are subject to the provisions of this chapter, may examine persons licensed under this chapter and persons reasona…

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Miss. Code Ann. § 63-19-57 Liability of licensees

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(1) A licensee under this chapter shall have no liability for any act or practice done or omitted in conformity with (a) any rule or regulation of the commissioner, or (b) any rule, regulation, interpretation or approval of any other state or federal agency or any opinion of the …

Miss. Code Ann. § 63-19-59 Employees of licensees may work remotely subject to certain conditions

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(1) Notwithstanding any other law to the contrary, nothing in this chapter shall be interpreted to interfere with employees of a licensee, licensed under this Chapter 19, Title 63, Mississippi Code of 1972, working from home or another remote location selected by the employee, pr…

Miss. Code Ann. § 63-19-61 Special examination fee to be paid by licensees who allow employees to work remotely

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To offset the costs of supervision and administration, as provided in Section 63-19-59, a licensee that allows its employees to work from home or another remote location selected by the employee must pay a special examination fee. Such fee shall be in addition to the regular exam…

Miss. Code Ann. § 63-19-7 Requirement of license

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No person shall engage in the business of a sales finance company in this state without a license therefor as provided in this chapter. However, no bank, trust company, private banker, industrial bank or investment company authorized to do business in this state shall be required…

Miss. Code Ann. § 63-19-9 Application for license

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The application for such license shall be in writing, under oath and in the form prescribed by the administrator. The application shall contain the name of the applicant; date of incorporation, if incorporated; the address where the business is or is to be conducted and similar i…

Miss. Code Ann. § 63-21-1 Short title

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This chapter may be cited as “The Mississippi Motor Vehicle and Manufactured Housing Title Law.”

Miss. Code Ann. § 63-21-11 Exceptions to requirement of certificate of title

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(1) No certificate of title need be obtained for:(a) A vehicle, manufactured home or mobile home owned by the United States or any agency thereof;(b) A vehicle, manufactured home or mobile home owned by a manufacturer or dealer and held for sale, even though incidentally moved on…

Miss. Code Ann. § 63-21-13 Designated agents of Department of Revenue generally

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(1) The tax collector of each of the several counties in this state shall by virtue of his office be a designated agent of the Department of Revenue. Such tax collectors may perform their duties under this chapter either personally or through any of their deputies. (2) Every lice…

Miss. Code Ann. § 63-21-15 Application for certificate of title; expedited title processing

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(1) The application for the certificate of title of a vehicle, manufactured home or mobile home in this state shall be made by the owner to a designated agent, on the form the department prescribes, and shall contain or be accompanied by the following, if applicable:(a) The name,…

Miss. Code Ann. § 63-21-16 Electronic transmittal of information by banks and other lending institutions; duties of institutions with respect to applications for certificates of title; entry of applications on statewide title registration system; addition of second lienholder to certificate of title; applications for certificates of title after assignment of liens; issuance of new certificate of title by Department of Revenue; connection of institutions to title registration system; penalties for noncompliance with statute or regulations by institutions; conditions for issuance of certificate of title to manufactured or mobile home for which title has been retired to real property; electronic transmission of liens and lien satisfactions

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(1) All designated agents appointed by the department under Section 63-21-13 may electronically transmit to the department information entered by them on applications for a certificate of title given in connection with the sale or transfer of a motor vehicle, manufactured home or…

Miss. Code Ann. § 63-21-17 Issuance of certificate of title; Department of Revenue to permanently maintain records of certificates of title, affidavits of affixation, manufacturers' certificates of origin, surrendered certificates of title, and affidavits of severance

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(1) The Department of Revenue shall examine each application received and, when satisfied as to its genuineness and regularity and that the applicant is entitled to the issuance of a certificate of title, shall issue a certificate of title of the vehicle, manufactured home or mob…

Miss. Code Ann. § 63-21-18 Automated statewide motor vehicle title registration system

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The Mississippi Department of Information Technology Services shall provide equipment for the operation and maintenance of the automated statewide motor vehicle, manufactured housing and mobile home registration system by the department. The automated statewide motor vehicle, man…

Miss. Code Ann. § 63-21-19 Contents and effect of certificate of title; attachment, etc., of certificate

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(1) Each certificate of title issued by the State Tax Commission shall contain:(a) The date issued;(b) The name and current address of the owner;(c) The names and addresses of the first two (2) lienholders in the order of priority as shown on the application, or if the applicatio…

Miss. Code Ann. § 63-21-21 Delivery of certificate of title

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The certificate of title shall be mailed to the first lienholder named in it or, if none, to the owner. If the original certificate of title is delivered to a lienholder, a nontransferable duplicate certificate of title shall be mailed to the owner to serve as a permit for operat…

Miss. Code Ann. § 63-21-23 Issuance of certificate of title where questions as to ownership of vehicle or existence of undisclosed security interests exist

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(a) If the State Tax Commission is not satisfied as to the ownership of the vehicle, manufactured home or mobile home or that there are no undisclosed security interests in it, the commission may accept the application but shall either:(a) Withhold issuance of a certificate of ti…

Miss. Code Ann. § 63-21-25 Refusal to issue certificate of title

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(a) The Department of Revenue shall refuse issuance of a certificate of title:(a) If any required fee is not paid;(b) If the department has reasonable grounds to believe that the applicant is not the owner of the vehicle, manufactured home or mobile home, or that the application …

Miss. Code Ann. § 63-21-27 Replacement of lost, stolen, mutilated or destroyed certificates

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(1) If a certificate of title is lost, stolen, mutilated or destroyed or becomes illegible, the first lienholder or, if none, the owner or legal representative of the owner named in the certificate, as shown by the records of the State Tax Commission, shall promptly make applicat…

Miss. Code Ann. § 63-21-28 Certificate of title pursuant to a filed affidavit of ownership for certain manufactured or mobile homes

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The Department of Revenue shall issue a certificate of title pursuant to a filed affidavit of ownership substantially similar to the affidavit provided in Section 63-21-30(22) for a manufactured home or a mobile home that is manufactured before July 1, 1999.

Miss. Code Ann. § 63-21-29 Issuance of distinctive certificate of title

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(a) If the department is not satisfied that there are no undisclosed security interests created before August 9, 1968, in a previously registered vehicle, aside from an all-terrain vehicle, or created before July 1, 1999, in a previously registered manufactured home or mobile hom…

Miss. Code Ann. § 63-21-3 Administration

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The terms and provisions of this chapter shall be administered by the Department of Revenue. The Department of Revenue shall have charge of all the affairs of administering the laws of the state relative to vehicle registration and titling, including fully autonomous vehicles, an…

Miss. Code Ann. § 63-21-30 Permanent retirement of title to manufactured home or mobile home; procedure; affidavit of severance; affidavit of destruction; affidavit of ownership

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(1) If the legal owner of a manufactured home or mobile home and the real property to which the manufactured home or mobile home has become affixed, wishes to permanently retire the title to a manufactured home or mobile home to real property, then such owner may file or cause to…

Miss. Code Ann. § 63-21-31 Procedure upon transfer of interest in vehicle by owner generally

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(1) If an owner transfers his interest in a vehicle, manufactured home or mobile home, other than by the creation of a security interest, he shall, at the time of the delivery of the vehicle, manufactured home or mobile home, execute an assignment and warranty of title to the tra…

Miss. Code Ann. § 63-21-33 Procedure upon transfer of title to or from dealers; records; duties of persons in possession of vehicles with improperly assigned titles; title to vehicles obtained by insurers upon payment of claims of loss

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If a dealer buys a vehicle, manufactured home or mobile home and holds it for resale and procures the certificate of title from the owner or the lienholder within ten (10) days after delivery to him of the vehicle, manufactured home or mobile home, he need not send the certificat…

Miss. Code Ann. § 63-21-35 Procedure upon transfer of interest of owner by operation of law

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(1) If the interest of an owner in a vehicle, manufactured home or mobile home passes to another other than by voluntary transfer the transferee shall, except as provided in subsection (2), promptly deliver to a county tax collector or a designated agent the last certificate of t…

Miss. Code Ann. § 63-21-37 Issuance of new certificate of title; disposition of surrendered certificates

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Except as provided in subsection (c) of Section 63-21-25, the Department of Revenue, upon receipt of a properly assigned certificate of title, with an application for a new certificate of title, the required fee and any other documents required by the Department of Revenue, shall…

Miss. Code Ann. § 63-21-38 Requirements of scrap metal processor or used motor vehicle parts dealer when purchasing any vehicle or scrap vehicle

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Should a scrap metal processor or used motor vehicle parts dealer be presented the certificate of title or vehicle license plate for any vehicle or scrap vehicle purchased, that scrap metal processor or used motor vehicle parts dealer shall mail or deliver the same to the Departm…

Miss. Code Ann. § 63-21-39 Procedure where vehicle scrapped, dismantled or destroyed; procedure where title for vehicle being transferred to used motor vehicle parts dealer or scrap metal processor is unavailable; obtaining title on vehicle with salvage certificate of title; Salvage Certificate of Title Fund; regulations; penalties for violation of section

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(1) (a) An owner who scraps, dismantles or destroys a vehicle and a person who purchases a vehicle as scrap or to be dismantled or destroyed shall indicate same on the back of the certificate of title and shall immediately cause the certificate of title and any other documents re…

Miss. Code Ann. § 63-21-40 Issuance of salvage certificates of title for damaged manufactured or mobile homes

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(1) An owner who scraps, dismantles or destroys a manufactured home or mobile home for which a certificate of title has been issued, and a person who purchases a manufactured home or mobile home as scrap or to be dismantled or destroyed for which a certificate of title has been i…

Miss. Code Ann. § 63-21-41 Applicability of chapter to particular liens and security interests

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(a) This chapter does not apply to or affect:(a) A lien given by statute or rule of law to a supplier of services or materials for the vehicle, manufactured home or mobile home;(b) A lien given by statute to the United States, this state, or any political subdivision of this stat…

Miss. Code Ann. § 63-21-42 Creation of security interest by transaction involving motor vehicle or trailers which provides for adjustment of rental price

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In the case of motor vehicles, trailers, manufactured homes or mobile homes, notwithstanding any other provision of law, a transaction does not create a sale or security interest merely because it provides that the rental price is permitted or required to be adjusted under the ag…

Miss. Code Ann. § 63-21-43 Perfection of security interests

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(1) Unless excepted by Section 63-21-41, a security interest in a vehicle, manufactured home or mobile home of a type which a certificate of title is required is not valid against creditors of the owner or subsequent transferees or lienholders of the vehicle, manufactured home or…

Miss. Code Ann. § 63-21-45 Procedure upon creation of security interest

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(1) If an owner creates a security interest in a vehicle, manufactured home or mobile home:(a) The owner shall immediately execute the application in the space provided therefor on the certificate of title, or on a separate form the State Tax Commission prescribes to name the lie…

Miss. Code Ann. § 63-21-47 Assignment of security interest by lienholder

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A lienholder may assign, absolutely or otherwise, his security interest in the vehicle, manufactured home or mobile home to a person other than the owner without affecting the interest of the owner or the validity of the security interest. However, any person without notice of th…

Miss. Code Ann. § 63-21-49 Procedure upon release of security interest

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(1) Upon the satisfaction of a security interest in a vehicle, manufactured home or mobile home for which the certificate of title is in the possession of the lienholder, he shall, within ten (10) days after demand and, in any event, within thirty (30) days, execute a release of …

Miss. Code Ann. § 63-21-5 Definitions

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(a) The following words and phrases when used in this chapter shall, for the purpose of this chapter, have the meanings respectively ascribed to them in this section except where the context clearly indicates a different meaning:(a) “State Tax Commission” or “department” means th…

Miss. Code Ann. § 63-21-51 Duty of lienholder named in notice of security interest to disclose security agreement and secured indebtedness

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A lienholder named in a notice of security interest filed by the State Tax Commission shall, upon written request of the owner or of another lienholder named on the certificate, disclose any pertinent information as to his security agreement and the indebtedness secured by it.

Miss. Code Ann. § 63-21-53 Perfection of unsatisfied security interest in previously registered vehicle

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If a security interest in a previously registered vehicle, aside from an all-terrain vehicle, is perfected under any other applicable law of this state as of August 9, 1968, and if a security interest in a previously registered manufactured home or mobile home is perfected under …

Miss. Code Ann. § 63-21-55 Exclusivity of procedure in chapter for perfecting and giving notice of security interests

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Except as provided in Section 63-21-53, the method provided in this chapter of perfecting and giving notice of security interests subject to this chapter is exclusive. Security interests subject to this chapter are hereby exempted from the provisions of law which otherwise requir…

Miss. Code Ann. § 63-21-57 Filing and recording of notices of security interests; examination of record prior to issuance or reissuance of certificate of title

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(a) The Department of Revenue shall file each notice of security interest received by the department with the required fee and maintain a record of all notices of security interests filed by the department:(a) Alphabetically, under the name of the owner;(b) Under the vehicle, man…

Miss. Code Ann. § 63-21-59 Suspension or revocation of certificate of title

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(a) The State Tax Commission shall suspend or revoke a certificate of title, upon notice and reasonable opportunity to be heard, if the commission finds:(a) The certificate of title was fraudulently procured or erroneously issued, or(b) The vehicle, manufactured home or mobile ho…

Miss. Code Ann. § 63-21-63 Schedule of fees

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(a) There shall be paid to the department for issuing and processing documents required by this chapter, fees for motor vehicles according to the following schedule:(a) Each application for certificate of title issued under Section 63-21-9$9.00(b) Each application for replacement…

Miss. Code Ann. § 63-21-64 Fees paid to Department of Revenue for issuing and processing necessary documents

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(a) There shall be paid to the Department of Revenue for issuing and processing documents required by this chapter, fees for manufactured homes or mobile homes according to the following schedule:(a) Each application for certificate of title $ 9.00(b) Each application for replace…

Miss. Code Ann. § 63-21-65 Disposition of fees

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The Department of Revenue shall deposit the fees collected under this chapter into a special fund that is created in the State Treasury to the credit of the department. As much of those fees as appropriated by the Legislature shall be used by the department to defray the cost of …

Miss. Code Ann. § 63-21-67 Use of duplicate copy of application for certificate of title as permit to operate motor vehicle

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The rules and regulations promulgated by the department shall make suitable provisions for the use by an applicant of the duplicate copy of his application for a certificate of title to serve as a permit for the operation of the motor vehicle or the use and occupation of a manufa…

Miss. Code Ann. § 63-21-69 Application for and issuance of certificate of title and privilege license upon acquisition of vehicle

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When a vehicle subject to titling under this chapter is acquired from a dealer or another person by sale or otherwise, the new owner of the vehicle shall have thirty (30) full working days, exclusive of the date of delivery, within which to make application for the required privi…

Miss. Code Ann. § 63-21-7 Administration

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(1) The State Tax Commission shall prescribe and provide suitable forms of applications, certificates of title, notices of security interests, and all other notices and forms necessary to carry out the provisions of this chapter. (2) The State Tax Commission may:(a) Promulgate su…