diff --git a/.pylintrc b/.pylintrc
index 0aa449044..80141cf47 100644
--- a/.pylintrc
+++ b/.pylintrc
@@ -59,8 +59,6 @@ disable=
  unused-argument,
  unused-import,
  unused-variable,
-# TODO(dougwig) - disable nonstandard-exception while we have neutron_lib shims
- nonstandard-exception,
 # "C" Coding convention violations
  bad-continuation,
  invalid-name,