NORTH MISSISSIPPI (WMC) – For the primary time in over 100 years, the following challenge of Mississippi license plates will likely be designed by a state citizen.

Who the designer is will likely be left as much as the state’s License Tag Fee for the Division of Income (DOR).

“[The License Tag Commission] has at all times been in command of choosing the design, so we thought it could be higher if we solicited assist from the general public,” mentioned Lexus Burns with DOR.

DOR will likely be accepting functions till the tip of November, and Burns says DOR, ultimately verify, has already acquired 20 submissions up to now.

“DOR is anticipating heavy participation,” Burns mentioned. “We’re actually excited.”

It will hopefully be an improve from the present, generic license plates that sit on tons of of 1000’s of Mississippi autos.

“They’re horrible,” mentioned Oxford resident Rebecca Leake, talking on the design. “I used to be speaking about it the opposite day with my mother as a result of she works in Tennessee. She simply mentioned they bought new license plates. I used to be like ‘ours are horrible.’ Why the yellow?”

License plates in Mississippi are on 5-year cycles.

Burns mentioned the present design will disappear on the finish of 2023, so in just over a yr drivers will see the brand new, publicly impressed design on the again of their autos.

The winner will in the end be determined by the License Tag Fee, which consists of the governor, the commissioner of income, the state treasurer, and the legal professional common.

“We simply suppose it is a nice alternative for folks to get entangled of their authorities,” Governor Tate Reeves mentioned throughout a Tuesday press convention. “We all know that there are folks all through our state which have super creative design expertise.”

Three totally different Mississippi license plates have been awarded “Plate of the 12 months” by the Car License Plate Collectors Affiliation, the latest being the Biloxi Lighthouse Design, which circulated between 2007 and 2012.

Will Magnolia State artists create the following award-winning design?

“We’ll see,” Leake mentioned. “I feel since [the state] did the identical factor for the flag, it opened up alternatives for this.”

Beneath are the design necessities:

• Proposed designs have to be submitted by finish of enterprise day on Nov. 30, 2022.
• The design have to be submitted in Adobe Illustrator (Ai) format.
• The design have to be readable with a light-colored background design with dark-colored alphanumeric traits for plate numbering.
• The design have to be restricted to a most of three colours.
• The design can not comprise expressions which might be thought of obscene, slandering, insulting or vulgar.
• The design can not comprise any copyrighted photographs.
• Every submission is required to supply the title, tackle, and telephone variety of the designer.
• The designer chosen won’t obtain any compensation.
• Contributors have to be Mississippi residents.
• The designer of the successful design should execute a launch of any rights to the design.
• Modifications to the design could also be made to satisfy the required specs and should contact events for additional info.
• The plate dimension will likely be 6″ actual x 12″ precisely as it’s right this moment.

Further tips, together with a visible help, will be discovered right here.

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