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DEALERS AND DESIGNATED AGENTS

Apply For Motor Vehicle Dealer License

To apply for a Motor Vehicle Dealer License, you must complete and mail in all of the documents in the packet listed here. The actual application form is one of the documents included in the packet. This form is electronically fillable. Once you have completed the form, print the entire packet and be sure to fill out the other documents as necessary.

Click here for the Motor Vehicle Dealer Booklet, which includes the law, rules and regulations of Motor Vehicle Dealer Tag Permit Law. 
 

Apply For Designated Agent Status

Designated Agents have the ability to perform titling duties of motor vehicles and/or manufactured homes for the MS Department of Revenue (DOR). Pursuant to Section 63-21-13(3) MS Code of 1972, Annotated “The Mississippi Department of Revenue may appoint persons other than licensed dealers as its designated agents, provided that such application shall enter into a bond with a surety company authorized to do business in this state as a surety...”. DOR considers the following as designated agents to perform duties on their behalf: County Tax Collectors, Motor Vehicle Licensed Dealers, Title Pledge Lenders, Financial Institutions (ex: Banks, Credit Unions, Finance Companies), and Manufactured Home Dealers.

In order to become a designated agent with the Mississippi Department of Revenue, you must complete the on-line application for each location and provide a Surety bond in the amount of Five Thousand Dollars ($5,000.00) payable to the Mississippi Department of Revenue. 

For more instructions, click here.
 

Motor Vehicle e-Services

Designated Agents can register​ for Mississippi Department of Revenue's (DOR) Motor Vehicle e-Services to submit title applications, manage and renew dealer licenses, view title records, and make secure encrypted electronic payments for these activities. 

•Licensed dealers can import XML file and submit title applications using the schema. Download schema file.

(see the XML guide​ and sample XML file)
 

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Laws and Regulations

Dealers and Designated Agents Regulations - Mississippi Administrative Code, Title 35, Part VII, Subpart 4