WASHINGTON — The man who tried to assassinate President Reagan has been released from a Washington mental hospital for good, more than 35 years after the shooting.

A spokeswoman for the District of Columbia’s Department of Mental Health said early Saturday that all patients scheduled to leave St. Elizabeths Hospital had been discharged. John Hinckley was among those scheduled for discharge.

A hired car pulled into the driveway of the Hinckley home around 2:30 p.m. Officers from the Kingsmill Police Department chased reporters away.

A federal judge ruled in late July that the 61-year-old Hinckley is not a danger to himself or the public and can live full time at his mother’s home in Williamsburg, Va.

Hinckley had already been visiting Williamsburg for long stretches at a time and preparing for the full-time transition. He’ll have to follow many rules while in Williamsburg, but his longtime lawyer Barry Levine said he thinks Hinckley will be a ‘‘citizen about whom we can all be proud.’’

Hinckley will have to work or volunteer at least three days a week.

He hasn’t yet done paid work in Williamsburg, but he has volunteered at a church and a mental health hospital, where he has worked in the library and in food service.

His mother lives in the gated community of Kingsmill. The unassuming home is on the 13th hole of a golf course.

Hinckley’s room has a king-size bed and TV and is decorated with paintings he has done of houses and cats, according to court documents. In the past, he has done such chores as cleaning, dishwashing, laundry, and leaf-raking.

After a year, he may live alone or with roommates.

Hinckley will continue to go to therapy while in Williamsburg. For at least the first six months, he will see his psychiatrist twice a month and he’ll have to attend weekly group therapy sessions. He’ll also see a therapist individually.

He will return to Washington once a month to St. Elizabeths’ outpatient department to discuss his mental health and compliance with the conditions of his leave.

Hinckley got a driver’s license in 2011. The court order in his case lets him drive within 30 miles of Williamsburg by himself. He can go up to 50 miles from the city if accompanied by his mother, sibling, or a therapist or social worker. He can also drive to and from Washington once a month for his outpatient meetings.

Hinckley has long considered himself a musician and an artist. In addition to painting, he plays the guitar and has been involved in both as part of his therapy. He will continue to see a music therapist once a month while in Williamsburg.

At court hearings in the case in late 2011 and early 2012, lawyers discussed the fact that Hinckley had recently developed an interest in photography.

There are limits to how Hinckley can spend his leisure time. He also can’t drink or use illegal drugs. He can surf the web but, at least initially, he’s not allowed to search for information about his crimes or victims, among other things.

He can’t have accounts on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, or LinkedIn without permission.

Hinckley can register to vote in Virginia. He has expressed an interest in voting in the past and tried unsuccessfully to get a ballot in the 1980s and 1990s. Levine told a newspaper in early August that he thinks his client will register to vote. Virginia’s deadline to register for the November presidential election is Oct. 17.

Don’t expect to see Hinckley giving interviews — he’s barred from talking to the press.

In the afternoon of March 30, 1981, outside the Washington Hilton Hotel, Hinckley fired a shot that ricocheted and hit Reagan in the chest. He also wounded police officer Thomas Delahanty and Secret Service agent Timothy McCarthy, and critically wounded James Brady, Reagan’s press secretary, who died in 2014.

Hinckley was found not guilty by reason of insanity and ordered to a psychiatric hospital.

After the verdict, Congress passed the Insanity Defense Reform Act of 1984, which altered the rules for consideration of mental illness of defendants in federal cases.

Hinckley was reported to have been motivated by an obsession with Jodie Foster. The actress appeared in the 1976 film “Taxi Driver,’’ in which a disturbed man played by Robert De Niro plots to assassinate a presidential candidate.