diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 1db1107..0cde33f 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -691,12 +691,6 @@
                         <artifactId>onos-build-conf</artifactId>
                         <version>${onos-build-conf.version}</version>
                     </dependency>
-                    <!-- For Java 8 lambda support-->
-                    <dependency>
-                        <groupId>com.puppycrawl.tools</groupId>
-                        <artifactId>checkstyle</artifactId>
-                        <version>5.9</version>
-                    </dependency>
                 </dependencies>
                 <configuration>
                     <!-- begin: workaround for unexpected NullPointerException on Eclipse -->
diff --git a/tools/build/conf/src/main/resources/onos/checkstyle.xml b/tools/build/conf/src/main/resources/onos/checkstyle.xml
index fc6757a..9260bae 100644
--- a/tools/build/conf/src/main/resources/onos/checkstyle.xml
+++ b/tools/build/conf/src/main/resources/onos/checkstyle.xml
@@ -257,10 +257,6 @@
         <!-- <module name="MagicNumber"/> -->
         <module name="MissingSwitchDefault"/>
 
-        <module name="RedundantThrows">
-            <property name="allowSubclasses" value="true"/>
-        </module>
-
         <module name="SimplifyBooleanExpression"/>
         <module name="SimplifyBooleanReturn"/>