Nayarit has two lives: Tepic, the capital, on Highway 15 and the motorway joining Guadalajara with Mazatlán, and Bahía de Banderas, where Nuevo Vallarta, Bucerías and Sayulita receive the tourism of Puerto Vallarta airport, which sits on the Jalisco side. Highway 200 runs along the coast and crosses the state line a few minutes from the airport, and thousands of rental cars cross it every day without noticing. Urban infractions are issued by the municipal transit offices, and those on state roads by the state police; debts are collected with the state renewal.

Context and authorities

Each entity applies its own traffic regulation and its early-payment discount calendar; amounts are set in UMA and overdue debts are collected with updates and surcharges. The link with the tenencia tax, plate renewal and verification means a forgotten infraction shows up right at the procedure. The Nayarit Government portal gathers official information.

Bahía de Banderas and Tepic have their own transit offices and treasuries, with regulations and discounts different from those of Puerto Vallarta across the state line; the state police covers the state highways and the National Guard federal Highways 15 and 200. The state administration and finance secretariat adds vehicle debts to the renewal and to plate procedures.

What the API returns for this entity

In Nayarit a plate is sent to the Mexico fines API, which walks its integrated sources and returns each infraction with the authority that recorded it:

  • The authority that recorded the infraction and its folio, unnormalised.
  • The date and reason, with the location if the source reports it.
  • The amount and status current at the source, with the discounts it publishes.
  • The payment reference when the authority offers one.
  • Which sources answered and which did not, to tell a complete result from a partial one.

How to check a plate in Nayarit

To check a plate by hand, the Nayarit Government portal is the entity’s official channel and the REPUVE confirms the vehicle’s identity before any procedure. With ten units that is enough; with a hundred, the API walks the integrated sources by plate and returns the result split by authority, with the folio and amount each one publishes.

What to watch if you run a fleet in Nayarit

A rent-a-car at Vallarta airport delivers cars with Jalisco plates that spend half the rental in Nayarit: infractions from Bahía de Banderas arrive through another channel and under another regulation, and the plate lookup at the return, with the result stored next to the contract, is the only way to charge them to the customer in time.

For a hotel transport fleet crossing the state line twenty times a day, the monthly plate lookup, stored per authority, separates the infractions of the two states and assigns them to the driver on shift.

How to integrate

Each plate is sent in a POST, with the entities to include if you do not want to query all of them. The response accepts the job and the result is retrieved by status lookup or arrives by webhook once the sources finish answering. The vehicle lookup quality guide explains how to handle partial results and the API page details access.

JSONIllustrative example, not a contract.
{
  "plate": "ABC123A",
  "jurisdictions": [
    "MX-NAY"
  ]
}

Limits and considerations

  • Infractions on federal highways are issued by the National Guard and paid separately from state debts.
  • UMA amounts are updated every year; 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 clarifications; it delivers information to decide.

Sources and further reading