diff --git a/types/leap-year/index.d.ts b/types/leap-year/index.d.ts
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+// Type definitions for leap-year 2.0
+// Project: https://github.com/sindresorhus/leap-year#readme
+// Definitions by: BendingBender <https://github.com/BendingBender>
+// Definitions: https://github.com/DefinitelyTyped/DefinitelyTyped
+
+export = leapYear;
+
+declare function leapYear(year?: number | Date): boolean;
diff --git a/types/leap-year/leap-year-tests.ts b/types/leap-year/leap-year-tests.ts
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+import leapYear = require('leap-year');
+
+// $ExpectType boolean
+leapYear();
+// $ExpectType boolean
+leapYear(2016);
+// $ExpectType boolean
+leapYear(new Date());
diff --git a/types/leap-year/tsconfig.json b/types/leap-year/tsconfig.json
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+{
+    "compilerOptions": {
+        "module": "commonjs",
+        "lib": [
+            "es6"
+        ],
+        "noImplicitAny": true,
+        "noImplicitThis": true,
+        "strictNullChecks": true,
+        "strictFunctionTypes": true,
+        "baseUrl": "../",
+        "typeRoots": [
+            "../"
+        ],
+        "types": [],
+        "noEmit": true,
+        "forceConsistentCasingInFileNames": true
+    },
+    "files": [
+        "index.d.ts",
+        "leap-year-tests.ts"
+    ]
+}
diff --git a/types/leap-year/tslint.json b/types/leap-year/tslint.json
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+{ "extends": "dtslint/dt.json" }