diff --git a/.clang-tidy b/.clang-tidy
index 3e07c71..c3291cd 100644
--- a/.clang-tidy
+++ b/.clang-tidy
@@ -253,6 +253,7 @@
 performance-trivially-destructible,
 performance-type-promotion-in-math-fn,
 performance-unnecessary-copy-initialization,
+readability-const-return-type,
 readability-delete-null-pointer,
 readability-deleted-default,
 readability-function-size,
diff --git a/fault-monitor/operational-status-monitor.cpp b/fault-monitor/operational-status-monitor.cpp
index e5b0c7f..10299f7 100644
--- a/fault-monitor/operational-status-monitor.cpp
+++ b/fault-monitor/operational-status-monitor.cpp
@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@
     }
 }
 
-const std::vector<std::string>
+std::vector<std::string>
     Monitor::getLedGroupPaths(const std::string& inventoryPath) const
 {
     // Get endpoints from fType
diff --git a/fault-monitor/operational-status-monitor.hpp b/fault-monitor/operational-status-monitor.hpp
index 6bd2efc..751b970 100644
--- a/fault-monitor/operational-status-monitor.hpp
+++ b/fault-monitor/operational-status-monitor.hpp
@@ -79,7 +79,7 @@
      *
      * @return std::vector<std::string> - Vector of LED Group D-Bus object paths
      */
-    const std::vector<std::string>
+    std::vector<std::string>
         getLedGroupPaths(const std::string& inventoryPath) const;
 
     /**
diff --git a/manager/json-parser.hpp b/manager/json-parser.hpp
index 0846a03..d7043be 100644
--- a/manager/json-parser.hpp
+++ b/manager/json-parser.hpp
@@ -133,7 +133,7 @@
  *
  *  @return phosphor::led::GroupMap
  */
-const phosphor::led::GroupMap loadJsonConfigV1(const Json& json)
+phosphor::led::GroupMap loadJsonConfigV1(const Json& json)
 {
     phosphor::led::GroupMap ledMap{};
 
@@ -153,7 +153,7 @@
  *
  *  @return phosphor::led::GroupMap
  */
-const phosphor::led::GroupMap loadJsonConfig(const fs::path& path)
+phosphor::led::GroupMap loadJsonConfig(const fs::path& path)
 {
     auto json = readJson(path);
 
@@ -180,7 +180,7 @@
  *  @note if config is an empty string, daemon will interrogate dbus for
  *        compatible strings.
  */
-const phosphor::led::GroupMap getSystemLedMap(fs::path config)
+phosphor::led::GroupMap getSystemLedMap(fs::path config)
 {
     if (config.empty())
     {
diff --git a/utils.cpp b/utils.cpp
index 70e40b7..a2a72cb 100644
--- a/utils.cpp
+++ b/utils.cpp
@@ -10,8 +10,8 @@
 {
 
 // Get service name
-const std::string DBusHandler::getService(const std::string& path,
-                                          const std::string& interface) const
+std::string DBusHandler::getService(const std::string& path,
+                                    const std::string& interface) const
 {
     using InterfaceList = std::vector<std::string>;
     std::unordered_map<std::string, std::vector<std::string>> mapperResponse;
@@ -37,8 +37,8 @@
 }
 
 // Get all properties
-const PropertyMap DBusHandler::getAllProperties(
-    const std::string& objectPath, const std::string& interface) const
+PropertyMap DBusHandler::getAllProperties(const std::string& objectPath,
+                                          const std::string& interface) const
 {
     PropertyMap properties;
 
@@ -60,9 +60,9 @@
 }
 
 // Get the property name
-const PropertyValue DBusHandler::getProperty(
-    const std::string& objectPath, const std::string& interface,
-    const std::string& propertyName) const
+PropertyValue DBusHandler::getProperty(const std::string& objectPath,
+                                       const std::string& interface,
+                                       const std::string& propertyName) const
 {
     PropertyValue value{};
 
@@ -102,8 +102,8 @@
     bus.call_noreply(method);
 }
 
-const std::vector<std::string> DBusHandler::getSubTreePaths(
-    const std::string& objectPath, const std::string& interface)
+std::vector<std::string> DBusHandler::getSubTreePaths(
+    const std::string& objectPath, const std::string& interface) const
 {
     std::vector<std::string> paths;
 
diff --git a/utils.hpp b/utils.hpp
index eb28e07..cd79fd5 100644
--- a/utils.hpp
+++ b/utils.hpp
@@ -52,8 +52,8 @@
      *  @return std::string  -  the D-Bus service name
      *
      */
-    const std::string getService(const std::string& path,
-                                 const std::string& interface) const;
+    std::string getService(const std::string& path,
+                           const std::string& interface) const;
 
     /** @brief Get All properties
      *
@@ -64,8 +64,8 @@
      *
      *  @throw sdbusplus::exception_t when it fails
      */
-    const PropertyMap getAllProperties(const std::string& objectPath,
-                                       const std::string& interface) const;
+    PropertyMap getAllProperties(const std::string& objectPath,
+                                 const std::string& interface) const;
 
     /** @brief Get property(type: variant)
      *
@@ -77,9 +77,9 @@
      *
      *  @throw sdbusplus::exception_t when it fails
      */
-    const PropertyValue getProperty(const std::string& objectPath,
-                                    const std::string& interface,
-                                    const std::string& propertyName) const;
+    PropertyValue getProperty(const std::string& objectPath,
+                              const std::string& interface,
+                              const std::string& propertyName) const;
 
     /** @brief Set D-Bus property
      *
@@ -102,8 +102,8 @@
      *
      *  @return std::vector<std::string> vector of subtree paths
      */
-    const std::vector<std::string> getSubTreePaths(
-        const std::string& objectPath, const std::string& interface);
+    std::vector<std::string> getSubTreePaths(
+        const std::string& objectPath, const std::string& interface) const;
 };
 
 } // namespace utils