diff --git a/types/restify/index.d.ts b/types/restify/index.d.ts
index e7b5629ded..639e692733 100644
--- a/types/restify/index.d.ts
+++ b/types/restify/index.d.ts
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 // Project: https://github.com/restify/node-restify
 // Definitions by: Bret Little <https://github.com/blittle>, Steve Hipwell <https://github.com/stevehipwell>
 // Definitions: https://github.com/DefinitelyTyped/DefinitelyTyped
-// TypeScript Version: 2.1
+// TypeScript Version: 2.2
 
 /// <reference types="node" />
 
@@ -942,7 +942,7 @@ export interface Response extends http.ServerResponse {
      * @function redirect
      * @return   {undefined}
      */
-    redirect(options: string | any, next: Next): void;
+    redirect(options: object | string, next: Next): void;
 
     /** HTTP status code. */
     code: number;
diff --git a/types/restify/restify-tests.ts b/types/restify/restify-tests.ts
index ade6ce3898..81e9922d3b 100644
--- a/types/restify/restify-tests.ts
+++ b/types/restify/restify-tests.ts
@@ -99,7 +99,7 @@ function send(req: restify.Request, res: restify.Response, next: restify.Next) {
     res.writeHead(200, {
         "Content-Type": "application/json"
     });
-    return next();
+    next();
 }
 
 server.post('/hello', send);
@@ -149,7 +149,9 @@ server.use(restify.plugins.throttle({
     }
 }));
 
-server.on('after', restify.plugins.auditLogger({ event: 'after', log: {} as Logger }));
+const logger = Logger.createLogger({ name: "test" });
+
+server.on('after', restify.plugins.auditLogger({ event: 'after', log: logger }));
 
 server.on('after', (req: restify.Request, res: restify.Response, route: restify.Route, err: any) => {
     route.spec.method === 'GET';
@@ -157,7 +159,7 @@ server.on('after', (req: restify.Request, res: restify.Response, route: restify.
     route.spec.path === '/some/path';
     route.spec.path === /\/some\/path\/.*/;
     route.spec.versions === ['v1'];
-    restify.plugins.auditLogger({ event: 'after', log: {} as Logger })(req, res, route, err);
+    restify.plugins.auditLogger({ event: 'after', log: logger })(req, res, route, err);
 });
 
 (<any> restify).defaultResponseHeaders = function(this: restify.Request, data: any) {
diff --git a/types/restify/tslint.json b/types/restify/tslint.json
index 718fb8f298..f93cf8562a 100644
--- a/types/restify/tslint.json
+++ b/types/restify/tslint.json
@@ -1,9 +1,3 @@
 {
-	"extends": "dtslint/dt.json",
-	"rules": {
-		// TODOs
-		"no-any-union": false,
-		"no-object-literal-type-assertion": false,
-		"no-void-expression": false
-	}
+    "extends": "dtslint/dt.json"
 }