diff --git a/.pre-commit-config.yaml b/.pre-commit-config.yaml
index 039b3c4e4d86c..08dbb5e86b42e 100644
--- a/.pre-commit-config.yaml
+++ b/.pre-commit-config.yaml
@@ -59,10 +59,6 @@ repos:
         - flake8==5.0.4
         - flake8-bugbear==22.7.1
         - pandas-dev-flaker==0.5.0
--   repo: https://github.com/pycqa/pylint
-    rev: v2.15.3
-    hooks:
-    -   id: pylint
 -   repo: https://github.com/PyCQA/isort
     rev: 5.10.1
     hooks:
@@ -281,3 +277,8 @@ repos:
         - autotyping==22.9.0
         - black==22.6.0
         - libcst==0.4.7
+    -   id: pylint
+        name: Pylint
+        entry: python -m pylint.__main__
+        language: system
+        files: \.py$
diff --git a/environment.yml b/environment.yml
index fed5ecb779045..66a51984b000b 100644
--- a/environment.yml
+++ b/environment.yml
@@ -50,6 +50,7 @@ dependencies:
   - sqlalchemy
   - tabulate
   - tzdata>=2022a
+  - vulture
   - xarray
   - xlrd
   - xlsxwriter
diff --git a/pandas/conftest.py b/pandas/conftest.py
index 14d156acdf4de..214bc76c12ea1 100644
--- a/pandas/conftest.py
+++ b/pandas/conftest.py
@@ -81,8 +81,10 @@
 zoneinfo = None
 if pd.compat.PY39:
     # Import "zoneinfo" could not be resolved (reportMissingImports)
+    # pylint: disable=import-error
     import zoneinfo  # type: ignore[no-redef]
 
+    # pylint: enable=import-error
     # Although zoneinfo can be imported in Py39, it is effectively
     # "not available" without tzdata/IANA tz data.
     # We will set zoneinfo to not found in this case
diff --git a/pandas/tests/indexes/datetimes/test_constructors.py b/pandas/tests/indexes/datetimes/test_constructors.py
index d129f5b365ca4..a466a09e32706 100644
--- a/pandas/tests/indexes/datetimes/test_constructors.py
+++ b/pandas/tests/indexes/datetimes/test_constructors.py
@@ -15,7 +15,6 @@
     OutOfBoundsDatetime,
     astype_overflowsafe,
 )
-from pandas.compat import PY39
 
 import pandas as pd
 from pandas import (
@@ -32,8 +31,8 @@
     period_array,
 )
 
-if PY39:
-    import zoneinfo
+if pd.compat.PY39:
+    import zoneinfo  # pylint: disable=import-error
 
 
 class TestDatetimeIndex:
@@ -1151,7 +1150,7 @@ def test_timestamp_constructor_retain_fold(tz, fold):
 
 
 _tzs = ["dateutil/Europe/London"]
-if PY39:
+if pd.compat.PY39:
     try:
         _tzs = ["dateutil/Europe/London", zoneinfo.ZoneInfo("Europe/London")]
     except zoneinfo.ZoneInfoNotFoundError:
diff --git a/pandas/tests/io/excel/test_readers.py b/pandas/tests/io/excel/test_readers.py
index fa1d6bbfd5a7e..f0ff0e3ed9cfc 100644
--- a/pandas/tests/io/excel/test_readers.py
+++ b/pandas/tests/io/excel/test_readers.py
@@ -841,7 +841,7 @@ def test_read_from_pathlib_path(self, read_ext):
     def test_read_from_py_localpath(self, read_ext):
 
         # GH12655
-        from py.path import local as LocalPath
+        from py.path import local as LocalPath  # pylint: disable=import-error
 
         str_path = os.path.join("test1" + read_ext)
         expected = pd.read_excel(str_path, sheet_name="Sheet1", index_col=0)
diff --git a/pandas/tests/io/pytables/test_read.py b/pandas/tests/io/pytables/test_read.py
index 4b57bc8291442..e98db4fc7b79f 100644
--- a/pandas/tests/io/pytables/test_read.py
+++ b/pandas/tests/io/pytables/test_read.py
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@
 
 from pandas._libs.tslibs import Timestamp
 from pandas.compat import is_platform_windows
+import pandas.util._test_decorators as td
 
 import pandas as pd
 from pandas import (
@@ -21,7 +22,6 @@
     ensure_clean_path,
     ensure_clean_store,
 )
-from pandas.util import _test_decorators as td
 
 from pandas.io.pytables import TableIterator
 
@@ -293,7 +293,7 @@ def test_read_from_pathlib_path(setup_path):
 def test_read_from_py_localpath(setup_path):
 
     # GH11773
-    from py.path import local as LocalPath
+    from py.path import local as LocalPath  # pylint: disable=import-error
 
     expected = DataFrame(
         np.random.rand(4, 5), index=list("abcd"), columns=list("ABCDE")
diff --git a/pandas/tests/io/sas/test_sas7bdat.py b/pandas/tests/io/sas/test_sas7bdat.py
index cee416ac218de..06d42c2c68e2a 100644
--- a/pandas/tests/io/sas/test_sas7bdat.py
+++ b/pandas/tests/io/sas/test_sas7bdat.py
@@ -84,7 +84,7 @@ def test_path_pathlib(self, dirpath, data_test_ix):
     @td.skip_if_no("py.path")
     @pytest.mark.slow
     def test_path_localpath(self, dirpath, data_test_ix):
-        from py.path import local as LocalPath
+        from py.path import local as LocalPath  # pylint: disable=import-error
 
         df0, test_ix = data_test_ix
         for k in test_ix:
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 3e87d237170aa..3b7ffe255138a 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -31,6 +31,13 @@ exclude = '''
 )
 '''
 
+[tool.pylint.main]
+ignore-patterns = ["^\\.#"]
+ignore = [
+  "versioneer.py",
+  "validate_min_versions_in_sync.py"
+]
+
 [tool.pylint.messages_control]
 max-line-length = 88
 disable = [
@@ -42,9 +49,10 @@ disable = [
   "bad-super-call",
   "c-extension-no-member",
   "function-redefined",
-  "import-error",
+#  "import-error",
   "inherit-non-class",
   "invalid-repr-returned",
+  "invalid-sequence-index",
   "invalid-unary-operand-type",
   "misplaced-bare-raise",
   "no-member",
diff --git a/requirements-dev.txt b/requirements-dev.txt
index e5dc2f1bb97a4..d7b3432629509 100644
--- a/requirements-dev.txt
+++ b/requirements-dev.txt
@@ -41,6 +41,7 @@ scipy
 sqlalchemy
 tabulate
 tzdata>=2022.1
+vulture
 xarray
 xlrd
 xlsxwriter