Tacuarembó is the country’s largest department and the heart of the centre-north: Route 5 crosses it from Montevideo to Rivera, Route 26 joins it with Paysandú and Melo, and Paso de los Toros, on the Negro river, is the gateway to the pulp mill and the central railway. Timber, cattle and rice trucks travel long distances between few towns. Urban fines are issued by the Intendencia and collected through SUCIVE; those on the routes, by the Policía Caminera.

Context and authorities

Traffic fines are administrative sanctions set out in Law 18.191 and in the departmental codes, expressed in adjustable units and applied by the intendencia of the department where the infraction occurs; the Policía Caminera issues those on national routes. Since the creation of SUCIVE the fine debt is checked and paid in any department together with the vehicle tax, and an unpaid fine blocks the transfer of the vehicle.

The Intendencia’s Transit Directorate issues fines in Tacuarembó, Paso de los Toros and San Gregorio de Polanco, with speed checks on the urban stretches of Route 5; a defence is filed with the Intendencia and payment is made through SUCIVE or at its offices. Caminera fines on Routes 5 and 26 are also collected through SUCIVE together with the vehicle tax.

What the API returns for this jurisdiction

In Tacuarembó a plate lookup walks the integrated sources of the Uruguay fines API and returns each fine with the intendencia or authority that applied it, as the source publishes it:

  • Intendencia or authority and fine number exactly as the source publishes them.
  • Date, location when reported and article infringed.
  • Amount in adjustable units and pesos, with the status current at the source.
  • Coverage per source and a partial-result flag when any failed to answer.

How to check a plate in Tacuarembó

To check a plate by hand there are two places: the SUCIVE debt lookup, which shows vehicle tax and fines from any department, and the Tacuarembó Intendencia portal, where defences and debt-free certificates are handled. With ten units that is enough; with a hundred, the API walks the integrated sources by plate and returns the result split by authority.

What to watch if you run a fleet in Tacuarembó

A forestry fleet hauling timber to Paso de los Toros or Montevideo on Route 5 piles up Caminera fines and those of several intendencias on trucks rotating between drivers on trips of hundreds of kilometres; looking up each plate at month end, with the result stored per authority, lets you assign them to the trip’s driver.

For a cattle transport company based in Tacuarembó, the plate lookup before each vehicle-tax instalment prevents a forgotten urban-stretch fine from blocking the payment.

How to integrate

A lookup is a POST with the identifier and, optionally, the jurisdictions to include; the initial response accepts the job and the result arrives by status lookup or webhook, because official sources answer in seconds or minutes. The asynchronous APIs guide explains how to retry without duplicating lookups, and the API page describes the full contract.

JSONIllustrative example, not a contract.
{
  "plate": "SBC1234",
  "jurisdictions": [
    "UY-TA"
  ]
}

Limits and considerations

  • Fines from the Policía Caminera on national routes are processed by the Ministry of the Interior and are also collected through SUCIVE.
  • Amounts in adjustable units are converted at the current value; the final amount is set by the intendencia at the time of payment.
  • A source that does not answer is reported as such, never as an absence of fines.
  • The API neither pays fines nor handles defences; it delivers information to decide.

Sources and further reading