diff --git a/tools/tslint/requireParameterTypeRule.ts b/tools/tslint/requireParameterTypeRule.ts
deleted file mode 100644
index e7c5118925..0000000000
--- a/tools/tslint/requireParameterTypeRule.ts
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,40 +0,0 @@
-import {RuleWalker} from 'tslint/lib/language/walker';
-import {RuleFailure} from 'tslint/lib/lint';
-import {AbstractRule} from 'tslint/lib/rules';
-import * as ts from 'typescript';
-
-export class Rule extends AbstractRule {
-  public static FAILURE_STRING = 'missing type declaration';
-
-  public apply(sourceFile: ts.SourceFile): RuleFailure[] {
-    const typedefWalker = new TypedefWalker(sourceFile, this.getOptions());
-    return this.applyWithWalker(typedefWalker);
-  }
-}
-
-class TypedefWalker extends RuleWalker {
-  public visitMethodDeclaration(node: ts.MethodDeclaration) {
-    if (node.name.getText().charAt(0) !== '_') {
-      node.parameters.forEach((p: ts.ParameterDeclaration) => {
-        // a parameter's "type" could be a specific string value, for example `fn(option:
-        // "someOption", anotherOption: number)`
-        if (p.type == null || p.type.kind !== ts.SyntaxKind.StringLiteral) {
-          this.checkTypeAnnotation(p.getEnd(), <ts.TypeNode>p.type, p.name);
-        }
-      });
-    }
-    super.visitMethodDeclaration(node);
-  }
-
-  private checkTypeAnnotation(location: number, typeAnnotation: ts.TypeNode, name?: ts.Node) {
-    if (typeAnnotation == null) {
-      let ns = '<name missing>';
-      if (name != null && name.kind === ts.SyntaxKind.Identifier) {
-        ns = (<ts.Identifier>name).text;
-      }
-      if (ns.charAt(0) === '_') return;
-      let failure = this.createFailure(location, 1, 'expected parameter ' + ns + ' to have a type');
-      this.addFailure(failure);
-    }
-  }
-}
diff --git a/tools/tslint/requireReturnTypeRule.ts b/tools/tslint/requireReturnTypeRule.ts
deleted file mode 100644
index 84784e01bc..0000000000
--- a/tools/tslint/requireReturnTypeRule.ts
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,62 +0,0 @@
-import {RuleWalker} from 'tslint/lib/language/walker';
-import {RuleFailure} from 'tslint/lib/lint';
-import {AbstractRule} from 'tslint/lib/rules';
-import * as ts from 'typescript';
-
-export class Rule extends AbstractRule {
-  public static FAILURE_STRING = 'missing type declaration';
-
-  public apply(sourceFile: ts.SourceFile): RuleFailure[] {
-    const typedefWalker = new TypedefWalker(sourceFile, this.getOptions());
-    return this.applyWithWalker(typedefWalker);
-  }
-}
-
-class TypedefWalker extends RuleWalker {
-  hasReturnStatement: boolean;
-
-  public visitFunctionDeclaration(node: ts.FunctionDeclaration) {
-    this.hasReturnStatement = false;
-    super.visitFunctionDeclaration(node);
-    if (this.hasReturnStatement) {
-      this.handleCallSignature(node);
-    }
-  }
-  public visitFunctionExpression(node: ts.FunctionExpression) {
-    let orig = this.hasReturnStatement;
-    super.visitFunctionExpression(node);
-    this.hasReturnStatement = orig;
-  }
-  public visitMethodDeclaration(node: ts.MethodDeclaration) {
-    this.hasReturnStatement = false;
-    super.visitMethodDeclaration(node);
-    if (this.hasReturnStatement) {
-      this.handleCallSignature(node);
-    }
-  }
-  public visitReturnStatement(node: ts.ReturnStatement) {
-    if (node.expression) {
-      this.hasReturnStatement = true;
-    }
-    super.visitReturnStatement(node);
-  }
-
-  private handleCallSignature(node: ts.SignatureDeclaration) {
-    // set accessors can't have a return type.
-    if (node.kind !== ts.SyntaxKind.SetAccessor) {
-      this.checkTypeAnnotation(node.type, node.name, node.getStart());
-    }
-  }
-
-  private checkTypeAnnotation(typeAnnotation: ts.TypeNode, name: ts.Node, start: number) {
-    if (typeAnnotation == null) {
-      let ns = '<name missing>';
-      if (name != null && name.kind === ts.SyntaxKind.Identifier) {
-        ns = (<ts.Identifier>name).text;
-      }
-      if (ns.charAt(0) === '_') return;
-      let failure = this.createFailure(start, 1, 'expected ' + ns + ' to have a return type');
-      this.addFailure(failure);
-    }
-  }
-}
diff --git a/tslint.json b/tslint.json
index 40fc1b87aa..79d65cd341 100644
--- a/tslint.json
+++ b/tslint.json
@@ -3,6 +3,6 @@
       "requireInternalWithUnderscore": true,
       "duplicateModuleImport": true,
       "semicolon": true,
-      "variable-name": false
+      "variable-name": [true, "ban-keywords"]
     }
 }