A person who gives or offers, or causes to be given or offered, a bribe, or any money, property, or value of any kind, or any promise or agreement therefor, to a public officer, or to a person executing any of the functions of a public office, or to a person elected, appointed or designated to thereafter execute the same, with intent to influence him in respect to any act, decision, vote, opinion or other proceedings, in the exercise of the powers or functions which he has or may have, is punishable by a fine of not more than $1,000, or imprisonment for not more than five years, or both. In addition to any such fine and/or imprisonment provided for by this section, any benefit granted or obtained as a result of such act, decision, vote, opinion or other proceeding shall be void as to the briber and/or recoverable from the briber as the circumstances of the particular case may dictate.