diff --git a/src/main/java/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/Main.java b/src/main/java/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/Main.java
index ffbb9ead0..4561eb279 100644
--- a/src/main/java/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/Main.java
+++ b/src/main/java/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/Main.java
@@ -273,9 +273,8 @@ public final class Main
     private static Properties loadProperties(File file)
     {
         final Properties properties = new Properties();
-        FileInputStream fis = null;
-        try {
-            fis = new FileInputStream(file);
+
+        try (final FileInputStream fis = new FileInputStream(file)) {
             properties.load(fis);
         }
         catch (final IOException ex) {
@@ -284,9 +283,6 @@ public final class Main
             ex.printStackTrace(System.out);
             System.exit(1);
         }
-        finally {
-            Utils.closeQuietly(fis);
-        }
 
         return properties;
     }
diff --git a/src/main/java/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/checks/UniquePropertiesCheck.java b/src/main/java/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/checks/UniquePropertiesCheck.java
index 96c176888..ce40a1f9f 100644
--- a/src/main/java/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/checks/UniquePropertiesCheck.java
+++ b/src/main/java/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/checks/UniquePropertiesCheck.java
@@ -64,8 +64,14 @@ public class UniquePropertiesCheck extends AbstractFileSetCheck
         final UniqueProperties properties = new UniqueProperties();
 
         try {
-            // As file is already read, there should not be any exceptions.
-            properties.load(new FileInputStream(file));
+            final FileInputStream fileInputStream = new FileInputStream(file);
+            try {
+                // As file is already read, there should not be any exceptions.
+                properties.load(fileInputStream);
+            }
+            finally {
+                fileInputStream.close();
+            }
         }
         catch (IOException e) {
             log(0, IO_EXCEPTION_KEY, file.getPath(),