Replacing a lost car title in Mississippi

Mississippi charges $9 and takes about six weeks — or $39 and 72 hours, and the choice is a form number.

What Mississippi charges

The replacement title fee is $9. Form 78-006 (Application for Replacement Certificate of Title), $9.00, mailed to MS DOR Motor Vehicle Services, P.O. Box 1383, Jackson, MS 39215-1383; standard issuance takes about six weeks. Fast Track (Form 78-026) is $39.00, issued within 72 hours of DOR receipt.

That figure comes from Mississippi Department of Revenue (DOR), Motor Vehicle Services, read from its own page and current as of August 2026. The hub compares all fifty states if you want to see where Mississippi sits — the spread runs from $5 to $101, which is wider than most people expect for the same piece of paper.

The part that catches people out

The standard route is Form 78-006, posted to the Department of Revenue’s Motor Vehicle Services in Jackson, and it runs to roughly six weeks. Fast Track, Form 78-026, is $39.00 and the Department issues within 72 hours of receiving it. Thirty dollars to convert a month and a half into three days is the sharpest speed-versus-cost trade in this entire table, and it is the whole decision for anyone with a buyer waiting.

Mississippi 78-006: Replacement Certificate of Title, with every box filled in

That is the document Mississippi wants, and we publish a worked example of it: Mississippi 78-006: Replacement Certificate of Title.

Both routes go to the same address in Jackson and both are posted rather than counter-issued, so build the post into your timing on top of the processing figure.

Related: what a replacement title costs in every state, and why the wait matters more than the fee · every Mississippi form a seller meets · selling a car in Mississippi.

Sources

• Mississippi Department of Revenue (DOR), Motor Vehicle Services — replacement title fee — Where the Mississippi figure of $9 was read, current as of August 2026
• Mississippi Department of Revenue (DOR), Motor Vehicle Services — agency home — The agency that issues Mississippi titles