diff --git a/docs/conf.py b/docs/conf.py
index ca8d8a4945..fd50c0c203 100644
--- a/docs/conf.py
+++ b/docs/conf.py
@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
-# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
 #
 # Web3.py documentation build configuration file, created by
 # sphinx-quickstart on Thu Oct 16 20:43:24 2014.
diff --git a/newsfragments/2353.misc.rst b/newsfragments/2353.misc.rst
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..6716a9bd3d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/newsfragments/2353.misc.rst
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Clean up unnecessary UTF-8 encoding declarations.
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index e4b28448d5..87476f8cd5 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -1,5 +1,4 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env python
-# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
 from setuptools import (
     find_packages,
     setup,
diff --git a/tests/core/contracts/test_contract_buildTransaction.py b/tests/core/contracts/test_contract_buildTransaction.py
index 85a8ffe324..4713061e99 100644
--- a/tests/core/contracts/test_contract_buildTransaction.py
+++ b/tests/core/contracts/test_contract_buildTransaction.py
@@ -8,8 +8,6 @@
     ValidationError,
 )
 
-# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
-
 
 @pytest.fixture()
 def math_contract(web3, MathContract, address_conversion_func):
diff --git a/tests/core/contracts/test_contract_transact_interface.py b/tests/core/contracts/test_contract_transact_interface.py
index f34037d285..0e506be5f7 100644
--- a/tests/core/contracts/test_contract_transact_interface.py
+++ b/tests/core/contracts/test_contract_transact_interface.py
@@ -1,5 +1,3 @@
-# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
-
 import pytest
 
 from eth_utils import (
diff --git a/web3/_utils/module_testing/eth_module.py b/web3/_utils/module_testing/eth_module.py
index b3f9b788f1..4d71b8669c 100644
--- a/web3/_utils/module_testing/eth_module.py
+++ b/web3/_utils/module_testing/eth_module.py
@@ -1,5 +1,3 @@
-# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
-
 import json
 import math
 import pytest