diff --git a/manifests/resource/location.pp b/manifests/resource/location.pp
index 8ed298a0c..7e62861fd 100644
--- a/manifests/resource/location.pp
+++ b/manifests/resource/location.pp
@@ -229,9 +229,6 @@
     default  => file,
   }
 
-  if !($www_root or $proxy or $location_alias or $stub_status or $fastcgi or $uwsgi or $location_custom_cfg or $internal or $try_files or $location_allow or $location_deny) {
-    fail("Cannot create a location reference without a www_root, proxy, location_alias, stub_status, fastcgi, uwsgi, location_custom_cfg, internal, try_files, location_allow, or location_deny defined in ${server}:${title}")
-  }
   if ($www_root and $proxy) {
     fail("Cannot define both directory and proxy in ${server}:${title}")
   }
diff --git a/spec/defines/resource_location_spec.rb b/spec/defines/resource_location_spec.rb
index 843d5db1d..bb66631a6 100644
--- a/spec/defines/resource_location_spec.rb
+++ b/spec/defines/resource_location_spec.rb
@@ -876,16 +876,6 @@
         it { is_expected.not_to contain_concat__fragment('server1-800-' + Digest::MD5.hexdigest('rspec-test') + '-ssl') }
       end
 
-      context 'location type missing' do
-        let :params do
-          {
-            server: 'server1'
-          }
-        end
-
-        it { expect { is_expected.to contain_class('nginx::resource::location') }.to raise_error(Puppet::Error, %r{Cannot create a location reference without a www_root, proxy, location_alias, stub_status, fastcgi, uwsgi, location_custom_cfg, internal, try_files, location_allow, or location_deny defined in server1:rspec-test}) }
-      end
-
       context 'www_root and proxy are set' do
         let :params do
           {