diff --git a/poms/pom.xml b/poms/pom.xml
index b5148a86309ed..049ac085372bd 100644
--- a/poms/pom.xml
+++ b/poms/pom.xml
@@ -259,10 +259,7 @@
           <plugin>
               <groupId>org.openhab.tools</groupId>
               <artifactId>static-code-analysis</artifactId>
-              <version>${sat.version}</version>
-              <configuration>
-                 <checkstyleProperties>src/sat/binding.properties</checkstyleProperties>
-              </configuration>
+              <version>${sat.version}</version>              
           </plugin>
         </plugins>
       </build>
diff --git a/src/sat/README.md b/src/sat/README.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 57a8c53efcb6e..0000000000000
--- a/src/sat/README.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,7 +0,0 @@
-------------------------------------------
-Static Analysis Tool - Properties files 
-------------------------------------------
-
-Contains properties files for the static-analysis-tool - https://github.com/openhab/static-code-analysis.
-
-These properties files will be used by the tool to override the default configurtion of the tool or to apply profile specific settings (e.g. URLs to resources, change the priority of a check and etc..)
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/src/sat/binding.properties b/src/sat/binding.properties
deleted file mode 100644
index e69de29bb2d1d..0000000000000