How To Register A Boat In Mississippi With No Papers

For all motorized boats, you have the choice to register your gunkhole online (Click Here) or consummate the boat registration application, attach whatever necessary documents, sign and postal service the paperwork to MDWFP Headquarters (MDWFP Gunkhole Registration, 1505 Eastover Dr. Jackson, MS 39211). Acceptable payment methods are check, cashier's bank check, money order, and cash if mail your boat registration into the MDWFP Headquarters location. You tin can become a Boat Registration Awarding form from:

Any local tax collector's office
Near places where boats are sold or serviced
MDWFP Regional Role
MDWFP Headquarters in Jackson
Online (Click Hither)

If you purchased your boat new / used from dealer, y'all must:
- Provide a re-create of the sales invoice
- If the boat was purchased at an out of state dealer, proof of payment of Mississippi sales tax must be included. (Mississippi sales taxation can be paid at your local tax collector's function)

If you purchased your gunkhole from an private who previously registered/titled the boat in Mississippi, you must:
- Submit proof of previous registration
- Submit the original boat/motor title(s) (if the boat was titled in the previous owner'due south proper name)
- Submit a witnessed or notarized bill of sale

If you purchased your boat from an individual who previously registered/titled the boat in another state, you must:
- Submit proof of previous registration
- Submit a copy of the boat title (if the boat was titled in the previous possessor's name)
- Submit a witnessed or notarized bill of auction

The gunkhole registration awarding requires a Hull Identification Number

This number should comprise 12-digits if the boat was manufactured after Nov, 1972. Gunkhole manufactured prior to 1972 volition take a serial number. If your gunkhole does not have a 12 digit Hull Identification Number or an wrong Hull Identification Number, your boat must be inspected by an MDWFP officeholder. Yous must consummate a MDWFP Boat Inspection Class (Click Here) and reach out to a Regional Office nearest you or the Jackson Role.

Northward Regional Office, Location: 457 CR 36 Enid, MS 38927 (Mailing Accost: P.O. Box 100 Enid, MS 38927 (662-563-6222)
Central Regional Office, Turcotte Lab, 506 Hwy 43 S, Canton, MS 39046, (601-859-3421)
South Regional Office, 1201 N. Clark Ave. Magnolia, MS 39652, (601-783-2911)
MDWFP Headquarters, 1505 Eastover Dr. Jackson, MS 39211, (601-432-2055)

Examples Hull Identification Numbers (HIN):

In one case we receive and process your gunkhole registration application, required documents, and payment, we will outcome you a boat registration card, which states the registration number assigned to your gunkhole, and two decals. The keepsake should be displayed within half dozen (6) inches of the number. Registration numbers issued past MDWFP are the boat'south permanent identification. The same registration number will be used as identification if the boat is transferred to a new owner. You must keep your boat registration card onboard of the vessel when in operation.

Once a gunkhole is registered, a notice to renew your gunkhole registration will be mailed to the boat'due south owner by MDWFP 60 days earlier the expiration date. For convenience and faster service, you may renew your boat registration:

Wherever hunting and angling license are sold
By calling 1-800-5GO-Chase (1-800-546-4868); which is available 24 hours a day
Online (Click Here)
Mail: MDWFP Boat Registration, 1505 Eastover Dr. Jackson, MS 39211

You should notify MDWFP Boat Registration of any address changes.

If your boat registration is electric current and your boat registration card or gunkhole decals are lost, stolen, or you but demand an additional carte du jour, yous may purchase a duplicate:

A location where hunting and fishing license are sold.
By calling 1-800-5GO-Chase (ane-800-546-4868);which is available 24 hours a twenty-four hour period
Online (Click Hither)
MDWFP Headquarters

You should notify MDWFP Gunkhole Registration of any address changes.

Gunkhole Registrations valid for three consecutive years, beginning the day the boat is registered. The expiration engagement is printed on your boat registration bill of fare. You lot have threescore days prior to the gunkhole expiration date to renew your boat registration. Yous may receive a shorter length of fourth dimension your boat registration is valid if your boat registration is not renewed on time, when the boat expires.

Boat and motor titling is bachelor in Mississippi. The gunkhole must exist registered before being titled. You must complete a gunkhole and/or motor championship application, sign, and have the application(s) notarized. You can obtain a boat and/or motor title at the MDWFP Headquarters ONLY. Mail service the title awarding(s) to MDWFP Headquarters (MDWFP Title Department, 1505 Eastover Dr. Jackson, MS 39211). Acceptable payment methods are check, cashier's check, coin order, and cash if mailing your title awarding(south) into the MDWFP Headquarters location. You can get a boat and/or motor championship application class from:

MDWFP Regional Function
MDWFP Headquarters in Jackson
Online (Click Here)

If requesting a duplicate boat and/or motor title, you must replenish information concerning the original title and the circumstances of its loss, theft, mutilation or destruction. You lot must complete a boat and/or motor title application, sign, take the application notarized, and adhere your statement every bit to why a indistinguishable is needed. Yous can obtain and indistinguishable boat and/or motor title at the MDWFP Headquarters ONLY.

MDWFP Championship Section, 1505 Eastover Dr. Jackson, MS 39211

Y'all tin get a boat and/or motor title application from:

MDWFP Regional Office

MDWFP Headquarters in Jackson
Online (Click Here)

Mississippi Department of Wildlife, Fisheries, and Parks exercise not championship boat trailers. Your boat trailer can exist titled at your local canton tax collector's office.

Registration fees are based on the length of your boat. Fees for original boat registration, transfer of ownership, renewal, livery, dealer, duplicate gunkhole registration and inspection are:

To register, transfer, or get a duplicate of your current boat registration (click here).

To renew your boat registration (click here).

During the processing of your boat registration at MDWFP Headquarters, your boat will be assign a number to exist displayed on your boat. This number consist of both alphabetical and numerical numbers (Ex: MI-1234-AB). This number will be on the boat registration card that is mailed to the owner of the boat. When MDWFP problems a registration number, that number is permanently assigned to that gunkhole and remains as identification. The same registration number will be used as identification if the boat is transferred to a new owner. You must keep your gunkhole registration bill of fare onboard of the vessel when in operation.

Your registration number shall exist painted on or attached to each side of the bow of the vessel for which it was issued. The numbers shall be placed on each side pf the forward half of the vessel in such position as to provide clear legibility for identification. The numbers shall read from left to right and shall exist in block characters of good proportion, non less than three inches (3") in height. The numbers shall be of a color which volition contrast with the color of the background and so maintained every bit to be clearly visible and legible, i.e., dark numbers on a light background, or light numbers on a dark background. No other numbers shall exist carried on the bow of such vessel. The decals should be displayed within six (6") inches of the numbers.

Your registration number consists of three parts:

Symbol "MI," which designates Mississippi
Numerical group, having a maximum of 4 digits
Alphabetical grouping, having a maximum of two letters.

Each role shall be separated by hyphens or equivalent.

When you sell your gunkhole, you are required to inform MDWFP Headquarters past:

Calling the Boat Registration Section (601-432-2055)
Going to MDWFP website and submitting the updated information (Click Here)

Select Division: License/Canoeing Registration
Enter your email address
Provided the owner and gunkhole data informing the department of the sale of the boat.

You must provide the new owner a copy of the electric current registration. The new owner must consummate a boat registration awarding and provided the advisable documents to transfer the registration. The original numbers issued to that boat volition be transferred to the new owner.

If a numbered boat is stolen, lost, or abandoned, the owner should get-go report it to the local authorities having jurisdiction. Then information technology should be reported to Mississippi Department of Wildlife, Fisheries, and Parks by contacting 601-432-2400.

Boat Registration Awarding (Individual)
Boat Registration Application (Business)
Boat & Motor Title Awarding(due south)
Boat Inspection Form

To obtain a indistinguishable canoeing education card, yous can purchase online (Click Here) or you tin postal service your information forth with a bank check or coin order in the amount of $iii.00 to MDWFP Boating Didactics, 1505 Eastover Dr. Jackson, MS 39211