Tucumán is the densest province of the north: Greater San Miguel, with Yerba Buena, Tafí Viejo and Banda del Río Salí, concentrates daily circulation, and Routes 9, 38 and 40 move sugar and citrus cargo and tourism towards the valleys. Urban infractions are ruled on by municipal misdemeanour courts, starting with San Miguel de Tucumán; 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 Tucumán Government portal.

San Miguel de Tucumán rules on its fines at the municipal misdemeanour court, with camera fines on the downtown avenues and at the entrances; Yerba Buena, Tafí Viejo, Banda del Río Salí, Alderetes and Concepción have their own courts, and a single urban journey can cross three jurisdictions in a few kilometres. On Routes 9, 38 and 40 fines are issued by the provincial road-safety authority. A defence is filed with the authority that issued the fine.

What the API returns for this jurisdiction

In Tucumán the API currently queries the San Miguel de Tucumán municipal misdemeanour court 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 Tucumán

The ANSV national lookup shows the fines that participating authorities load into the national system, and the Tucumán Government portal gathers local procedures and rules. Checking every plate by hand on both sites is feasible with ten vehicles and stops being so with a hundred: the API automates the lookup across the integrated authorities and returns one result per source.

What to watch if you run a fleet in Tucumán

A delivery vehicle in Greater San Miguel crosses the boundaries between the capital, Yerba Buena and Banda del Río Salí several times a day, and each court issues and publishes on its own; the plate lookup is best read per source and repeated thirty days later, so a month is not closed with a court that publishes late.

Sugar and citrus harvest trucks leave the mills along Routes 9 and 38 towards the ports and pass cargo and speed checks on the urban stretches; a fine discovered when renewing the technical inspection no longer allows a defence in time. A plate check at the close of each harvest, with the result stored, settles traceability.

How to integrate

A lookup is a POST with the plate 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 work and the API page details access.

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

Limits and considerations

  • Neighbouring municipal courts rule on fines from the same urban journey; read the result per source.
  • 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