diff --git a/tslint.json b/tslint.json
index 29fdf37f7f..c28db5ea6d 100644
--- a/tslint.json
+++ b/tslint.json
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
       "duplicateModuleImport": true,
       "enforce-copyright-header": true,
       "no-duplicate-variable": true,
-      "semicolon": true,
+      "semicolon": [true],
       "variable-name": [true, "ban-keywords"]
     }
 }