diff --git a/types/rc/index.d.ts b/types/rc/index.d.ts
index 3ab9cc3a26..07bc827079 100644
--- a/types/rc/index.d.ts
+++ b/types/rc/index.d.ts
@@ -1,22 +1,24 @@
-// Type definitions for rc
+// Type definitions for rc 1.1
 // Project: https://github.com/dominictarr/rc
 // Definitions by: Daniel Rosenwasser <https://github.com/DanielRosenwasser>
+//                 BendingBender <https://github.com/BendingBender>
 // Definitions: https://github.com/DefinitelyTyped/DefinitelyTyped
+// TypeScript Version: 2.2
 
 declare function rc(
-	name: string,
-	defaults?: any,
+    name: string,
+    defaults?: { [key: string]: any },
     /**
      * Parsed argv object. For example, if args is `--foo bar`, then this value should be `{foo: 'bar'}`
      * If `argv` is `null` or `undefined`, then `rc`'s default parser will parse `process.argv`.
      */
-	argv?: {} | null,
+    argv?: { [key: string]: any } | null,
     /**
      * Custom config file parser.
      * This function will be passed the string contents of each
      * discovered configuration file should return a parsed object dictionary.
      */
-	parse?: ((content: string) => any) | null
-): any;
+    parse?: ((content: string) => { [key: string]: any }) | null
+): { [key: string]: any };
 
 export = rc;
diff --git a/types/rc/rc-tests.ts b/types/rc/rc-tests.ts
index 9574bec339..81522ccd59 100644
--- a/types/rc/rc-tests.ts
+++ b/types/rc/rc-tests.ts
@@ -1,15 +1,15 @@
-import rc = require("rc")
+import rc = require('rc');
 
-let confA = rc("appname1", {
+const confA = rc('appname1', {
     port: 2468,
     views: {
-        engine: "jade"
-    }
+        engine: 'jade',
+    },
 });
 
 ////////////////////
 
-let appCfg = rc("appname2", {}, null, function parse(s) {
+const appCfg = rc('appname2', {}, null, function parse(s) {
     return JSON.parse(s.toLowerCase());
 });
 
@@ -19,15 +19,18 @@ appCfg.config;
 
 ////////////////////
 
-let customArgv = rc("appname3", {
-    option: true
-},
-{
-    option: false,
-    envOption: 24,
-    argv: {
-        remain: [],
-        cooked: ['--no-option', '--envOption', '24'],
-        original: ['--no-option', '--envOption=24']
+const customArgv = rc(
+    'appname3',
+    {
+        option: true,
+    },
+    {
+        option: false,
+        envOption: 24,
+        argv: {
+            remain: [],
+            cooked: ['--no-option', '--envOption', '24'],
+            original: ['--no-option', '--envOption=24'],
+        },
     }
-});
+);
diff --git a/types/rc/tslint.json b/types/rc/tslint.json
index a41bf5d19a..f93cf8562a 100644
--- a/types/rc/tslint.json
+++ b/types/rc/tslint.json
@@ -1,79 +1,3 @@
 {
-    "extends": "dtslint/dt.json",
-    "rules": {
-        "adjacent-overload-signatures": false,
-        "array-type": false,
-        "arrow-return-shorthand": false,
-        "ban-types": false,
-        "callable-types": false,
-        "comment-format": false,
-        "dt-header": false,
-        "eofline": false,
-        "export-just-namespace": false,
-        "import-spacing": false,
-        "interface-name": false,
-        "interface-over-type-literal": false,
-        "jsdoc-format": false,
-        "max-line-length": false,
-        "member-access": false,
-        "new-parens": false,
-        "no-any-union": false,
-        "no-boolean-literal-compare": false,
-        "no-conditional-assignment": false,
-        "no-consecutive-blank-lines": false,
-        "no-construct": false,
-        "no-declare-current-package": false,
-        "no-duplicate-imports": false,
-        "no-duplicate-variable": false,
-        "no-empty-interface": false,
-        "no-for-in-array": false,
-        "no-inferrable-types": false,
-        "no-internal-module": false,
-        "no-irregular-whitespace": false,
-        "no-mergeable-namespace": false,
-        "no-misused-new": false,
-        "no-namespace": false,
-        "no-object-literal-type-assertion": false,
-        "no-padding": false,
-        "no-redundant-jsdoc": false,
-        "no-redundant-jsdoc-2": false,
-        "no-redundant-undefined": false,
-        "no-reference-import": false,
-        "no-relative-import-in-test": false,
-        "no-self-import": false,
-        "no-single-declare-module": false,
-        "no-string-throw": false,
-        "no-unnecessary-callback-wrapper": false,
-        "no-unnecessary-class": false,
-        "no-unnecessary-generics": false,
-        "no-unnecessary-qualifier": false,
-        "no-unnecessary-type-assertion": false,
-        "no-useless-files": false,
-        "no-var-keyword": false,
-        "no-var-requires": false,
-        "no-void-expression": false,
-        "no-trailing-whitespace": false,
-        "object-literal-key-quotes": false,
-        "object-literal-shorthand": false,
-        "one-line": false,
-        "one-variable-per-declaration": false,
-        "only-arrow-functions": false,
-        "prefer-conditional-expression": false,
-        "prefer-const": false,
-        "prefer-declare-function": false,
-        "prefer-for-of": false,
-        "prefer-method-signature": false,
-        "prefer-template": false,
-        "radix": false,
-        "semicolon": false,
-        "space-before-function-paren": false,
-        "space-within-parens": false,
-        "strict-export-declare-modifiers": false,
-        "trim-file": false,
-        "triple-equals": false,
-        "typedef-whitespace": false,
-        "unified-signatures": false,
-        "void-return": false,
-        "whitespace": false
-    }
+    "extends": "dtslint/dt.json"
 }