In Chubut, the traffic that matters to companies runs along National Route 3, between Puerto Madryn, Trelew and Comodoro Rivadavia, and along Route 26 towards the oil fields: oil-service pickups, fishing transport and tourism heading to Península Valdés. Rawson, the capital, and each city have their own municipal misdemeanour court for urban infractions; route infractions depend on the provincial road-safety authority.

Context and authorities

Amounts and deadlines follow the National Traffic Law 24.449: fixed units, two-year limitation for minor offences and five for serious ones. Institutional information is on the Chubut Government portal.

Comodoro Rivadavia, Trelew, Puerto Madryn, Esquel and Rawson rule on their urban fines in their own misdemeanour courts, with speed cameras at the entrances and on the ring avenues; Rada Tilly, next to Comodoro, has its own. On Route 3 and Route 26 fines are issued by the provincial road-safety authority, and at the entrances to Península Valdés traffic checks and protected-area access controls add up. A defence is filed with the court that issued the fine.

What the API returns for this jurisdiction

The sources integrated today in Chubut are the Rada Tilly municipal misdemeanour court; the API walks them by plate and returns each fine with the authority that issued it:

  • Authority and fine number exactly as each court publishes them.
  • Date, location when reported and description of the infraction.
  • Amount, status and payment conditions published by that court.
  • Downloadable payment slip when one exists.
  • Coverage per source and partial-result flag.

How to check a plate in Chubut

Two official channels cover manual checks: the ANSV national lookup, which gathers fines from participating authorities, and the Chubut Government portal for local procedures. As volume grows, the API queries the integrated authorities by plate and delivers one result per source, with the date and amount each court publishes.

What to watch if you run a fleet in Chubut

An oil-service pickup can cover Comodoro, Rada Tilly, Sarmiento and the Route 26 oil fields in a week, and answer to three different courts for a single trip. Since each one publishes at its own pace, the plate lookup is worth repeating thirty and sixty days after the trip, not only at month end.

On the Trelew–Puerto Madryn corridor the peak is whale season, from June to December, when rental vehicles and checks at the entrances to Península Valdés add up; a rent-a-car that checks the plate at return, with the per-source result stored, charges the fine to the right customer instead of absorbing it.

How to integrate

The integration starts with one POST per plate, with the jurisdiction as an optional filter. Since courts answer at their own pace, the API accepts the job and delivers the result by status or webhook; store the idempotency key before sending, as the asynchronous APIs guide describes. The API page details access.

JSONIllustrative example, not a contract.
{
  "plate": "ABC123",
  "jurisdictions": [
    "AR-U"
  ]
}

Limits and considerations

  • Patagonian sources publish with delay; the fine date takes precedence over the lookup date.
  • Fixed-unit amounts are converted at the value current at the source; the final amount is set by the authority at the time of payment.
  • A source that does not answer is reported as such, never as an absence of infractions.
  • The API neither pays fines nor handles defences; it delivers information to decide.

Sources and further reading