Section 22354 - Limit of 65 mph more than reasonable or safe(a) Whenever the Department of Transportation determines upon the basis of an engineering and traffic survey that the limit of 65 miles per hour is more than is reasonable or safe upon any portion of a state highway where the limit of 65 miles is applicable, the department may determine and declare a prima facie speed limit of 60, 55, 50, 45, 40, 35, 30, 25, 20, or 15 miles per hour, whichever is found most appropriate to facilitate the orderly movement of traffic and is reasonable and safe, which declared prima facie speed limit shall be effective when appropriate signs giving notice thereof are erected upon the highway.(b) This section shall become operative on the date specified in subdivision (c) of Section 22366.Amended by Stats 2021 ch 690 (AB 43),s 4, eff. 1/1/2022.Repealed (in Sec. 24) and added by Stats. 1995, Ch. 766, Sec. 25. Effective January 1, 1996. This section became operative, by its own provisions, on the date described in Section 22366.