diff --git a/ocw/apps.py b/ocw/apps.py
index b826a032..f739f662 100644
--- a/ocw/apps.py
+++ b/ocw/apps.py
@@ -4,6 +4,8 @@
 from apscheduler.schedulers.background import BackgroundScheduler
 from apscheduler.executors.pool import ThreadPoolExecutor
 from pytz import utc
+import ocw.lib.db
+
 
 logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
 __SCHEDULER = None
@@ -36,8 +38,6 @@ def ready(self):
         getScheduler().start()
 
         try:
-            import ocw.lib.db
-
             ocw.lib.db.init_cron()
         except Exception:
             logger.exception("Failure on initialize cronjobs")
diff --git a/ocw/lib/emailnotify.py b/ocw/lib/emailnotify.py
index c716205f..3f88da47 100644
--- a/ocw/lib/emailnotify.py
+++ b/ocw/lib/emailnotify.py
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@
 from email.mime.text import MIMEText
 from texttable import Texttable
 from django.urls import reverse
+from ocw import views
 from webui.PCWConfig import PCWConfig
 from webui.settings import build_absolute_uri
 from ..models import Instance
@@ -13,7 +14,6 @@
 
 def draw_instance_table(objects):
 
-    from ocw import views
     table = Texttable(max_width=0)
     table.set_deco(Texttable.HEADER)
     table.header(['Provider', 'id', 'Created-By', 'Namespace', 'Age', 'Delete', 'openQA'])
diff --git a/pylintrc b/pylintrc
index 7c0c7cf0..69616485 100644
--- a/pylintrc
+++ b/pylintrc
@@ -4,7 +4,6 @@ disable=
  C0115, # missing-class-docstring 
  C0116, # missing-function-docstring
  C0206, # Consider iterating with .items()
- C0415, # Import outside toplevel
  E1101, # no-member
  R1702, # Too many nested blocks
  W0237, # arguments-renamed